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Intriguing minerals: lorandite, TlAsS2, a geochemical detector of solar neutrinos

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This lecture text demonstrates how the mineral lorandite is used as a detector of solar neutrinos. Because the age of the lorandite deposit in Allchar, North Macedonia, is known, this opened the possibility to determine the solar neutrino flux over the last 4.3 million years.

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  1. Research Center for Environment and Materials, Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Macedonia, MASA, Bul. Krste Misirkov 2, 1000, Skopje, North Macedonia

    Gligor Jovanovski

  2. Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000, Skopje, North Macedonia

    Gligor Jovanovski, Petre Makreski & Trajče Stafilov

  3. Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences, Goce Delčev University, 2000 Štip, North Macedonia

    Blažo Boev & Ivan Boev

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Jovanovski, G., Boev, B., Makreski, P. et al. Intriguing minerals: lorandite, TlAsS2, a geochemical detector of solar neutrinos. ChemTexts 5, 12 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40828-019-0086-3

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