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China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

Hurn

"They found a single crystal particle among the 140,000 lunar sample particles with a diameter of about 10 microns."

Might this mean that the largest, of many particles, reached 10 microns. How many, smaller, particles were there? 0 or > 1 ? Disambiguation requested.

This might also account for the -Y, if more particles did have Y.

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