IIT Madras research have shown that the common minerals be broken into nano-sized particles in milliseconds by charged tiny water droplets or microdroplets.
These minerals are including river sand, ruby and alumina, which are very hard.
Microdroplets are known to enhance the chemical reactions, and as a result new chemical bonds form.
Soil forms through gradual weathering of rocks, a process that takes 200-400 years to produce one centimetre of soil comprising different sized particles.
With the new innovation, in just 10 ms, the mineral microparticles broke up into nanoparticles.