A rare calcium aluminum borate mineral, a type of ore that contains various chemical elements.
Named after Cahn, likely a mineralogist or discoverer, using the standard mineralogical suffix '-ite' to indicate a mineral species.
Cahnite is so rare that most museums have only tiny specimens, yet its crystal structure reveals clues about how boron—a crucial element for modern technology—arranges itself in nature!
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