Discoveries can be accidental or have a unique precedence of their own. Kekule’s intensive perseverance to arrive at the benzene (C6H6) ring-structure came after his dream of a ‘snake catching its own tail’. Columbus had a keen ambition to discover India that led him to the North American continent, and called them Indians, later to realize that it was America that he had discovered. The discovery of the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex (ADCC) by Sukheswala and Udas (1963), the first in Asia outside the then Soviet Union, apparently had two very impacting developments in the...
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