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Once a man loved a very rare stone and spent 18,000 yuan to buy it at home. Surprisingly, for decades, the stone kept growing white hair, almost crazy.
Experts are surprised by this, this stone is actually alive? What kind of secrets are hidden behind the white-haired magic stone?
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In 1987, a collector from Liaoning Province, Tian Enhong, came to Qingdao on a business trip. Qingdao is bordered by the ocean, the beach is always very lively, walking on the beach, countless local characteristics attract the attention of Tian Enhong.
However, before a humble stall, Tian Enhong has an unexpected discovery: a stone.
The stone is about 20 cm tall and 15 cm in diameter, and its whole body is snow white. Compared with other stones, this stone noticed by Tian Enhong was not special in terms of size and color, but the white hair it produced really made Tian Enhong bigger
Tian Enhong was extremely interested in this stone with white hair, so he chatted with the owner of the stone. I thought that the owner would be able to uncover the secret of this stone, but I did not expect that even the person who owned this stone did not know anything about it.
Tian Enhong was quite fond of this stone, and despite the opposition of his family, he resolutely bought it back for a sky-high price of 18,000 yuan and named it the white-haired magic stone.
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Tian Enhong, who had received the white-haired magic stone, was satisfied to collect it, at first he did not care, but from time to time he admired this stone that carried countless secrets, but soon after, Tian Enhong made a major discovery.
This white-haired magic stone has human-like hair, and Tian Enhong has always believed that they are things that have their own, and do not have the ability to grow twice.
And a year and a half later, the hairs continued to grow. This can't help but make Tian Enhong feel scared and curious, after which he visited many strange stone collectors and some scientific research units, but the mystery of the white-haired magic stone has never been solved.
Until 2005, the white-haired magic stone was sent to the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for identification.
Experts were also surprised to see this strange stone covered with white hair, in people's stereotypes, the stone is always hard and lifeless, how does it grow hair?
The experts removed one of the hairs of the white-haired magic stone and looked at it under the microscope, and the white hair was hollow inside and there was no special substance. To explore the true components of white-haired magic stone hairs, experts experimented with them in hydrochloric acid.
Calcium has always been an important component of hair, and almost all substances containing calcium can react with hydrochloric acid. Experts speculate that the hair must have a chemical reaction with hydrochloric acid, but the chemical experiment that does not move has once again refreshed people's cognition.
The white-haired magic stone has a calcium content of 0 hair, and various indications indicate that the hair of the white-haired magic stone is not ordinary animal or human hair.
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After all the speculations have been overturned, the experts have a new research direction. After a heated discussion, people came to the unanimous conclusion that the white-haired magic stone was actually a marine animal. The experts went through all the books on marine life and finally saw the true face of the white-haired magic stone hair: the headworm.
Cephalopodium is an invertebrate that lives exclusively in stone, hence the name because of the disc shape of its head. The dense hairs on the white-haired magic stone are not the hairs of the stone itself, but a kind of horn secreted by the headpanworm.
Because the headworm is rare in people's daily lives, the white-haired magic stone just began to appear in the public eye and really shocked many people.
Cephalopodium lives in the ocean, and often, the microorganisms in the ocean are the daily source of nutrition for the cephalopodium. Cephalopodium secretes keratin while drawing nutrients from stones, which accumulate over time, forming hairs that are now extremely long.
According to experts, the reason why the hair of the white-haired magic stone keeps growing is actually because these head worms are still alive. Even far from the deep sea, they can still rely on the inorganic salts in the stone to continue to grow and reproduce, and have tenacious vitality. The headpanworm is constantly secreting, and the length of the white-haired magic stone's hair continues to increase.
Seeing the special feature of this white-haired magic stone, Tian Enhong did not hesitate in the slightest, and gave this stone, which he had spent 18,000 yuan at the beginning, to the Marine Ecological Biological Herbarium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for free.
For Tian Enhong, the white-haired magic stone is very precious, but it is only a magical collection, but for the country, the significance of this white-haired magic stone is endless. It has biological research value and is the best stepping stone for people to explore uncharted territory.
From an ordinary stone to a special kind of marine life, people's search for the white-haired magic stone has also gone through a long and tortuous process. Even after decades, the white-haired magic stone is still carefully collected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and countless people have heard the sound and want to see the white-haired magic stone.
The secret of the White-Haired Magic Stone is finally revealed, but the human journey to a whole new realm has only just begun. Nature has the magic of creating everything, and we in nature are always learners and participants. On the road to exploring the nature of the world, people still need to pay more efforts. We don't produce anything, we're just nature's porters.
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