Paddlewheelite is one of the rarest carbonate minerals found in the Svornost mine in the Czech Republic, and among the rarest of all known carbonate minerals. Paddlewheelite has a unique structure suggesting the paddle wheel of an old-fashioned steamboat. Uranyl carbonate clusters form the wheel, which is held together by axles made of copper and with a gearbox made of calcium atoms

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