#Earthquakes may explain how huge #goldnuggets form in #quartzrock

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2445930-earthquakes-may-explain-how-huge-gold-nuggets-form-in-quartz-rock/

#Quartzcrystals produce #electricity when they are deformed by #mechanicalstress, which may explain how enormous chunks of #gold can form in inert #rock

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-significance-individual-molecules-mechanical-stress.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-06-significance-individual-molecules-mechanical-stress.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1671599634974736385#m

Demonstrating the significance of individual molecules during #mechanicalstress in #cells @WWU_Muenster @ScienceAdvances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3347 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-significance-individual-molecules-mechanical-stress.html

#mechanobiology people: I've setup a bot tooting #cytoskeleton preprints, @Rxiv_cytoskeleton , but that includes more biochemical things and excludes more morphogenetic ones. I ask for your ideas for what a good filter would be to get mechanobio all and only papers. I guess, something like "(#cell or #tissue or #actin or ...) and (#force or #mechanicalstress or #strain or ...)".
Anyone has such a rule he'd be happy with, tested with #pubmed e.g.? @mechanobiology