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Today’s distraction:
The winner of this match will face #Magnetite for the finals with a shot at the #MinCup2020 crown. Both are beautiful & bizarre with odd properties and a lot of charm.
The winner of this match will face #Magnetite for the finals with a shot at the #MinCup2020 crown. Both are beautiful & bizarre with odd properties and a lot of charm.
Both are Safe But Boring to lick. They even have similar texture (smooth). As far as your tongue in concerned, it’s a wash. You’ll need different criteria to pick your fav.
(One #MinCup we’ll have either a Fun To Lick or a Do Not Lick finalist and I will be overjoyed)
(One #MinCup we’ll have either a Fun To Lick or a Do Not Lick finalist and I will be overjoyed)
#Fluorite is a basic calcium fluoride (CaF2), which didn’t give me headaches when memorizing composition for mineralogy exams.
Amusingly, the element is named for the mineral, not the other way around. Same for fluorescence: the effect named for the rock’s distinctive property.
Amusingly, the element is named for the mineral, not the other way around. Same for fluorescence: the effect named for the rock’s distinctive property.
Reasons to vote for #MinCup2020 competitors:
#Elbaite: lures the unwary into disappointment & broken teeth by looking like a watermelon jollyrancher but actually being extremely hard & flavourless
#Fluorite: Nature’s glowing d8
#Elbaite: lures the unwary into disappointment & broken teeth by looking like a watermelon jollyrancher but actually being extremely hard & flavourless
#Fluorite: Nature’s glowing d8
You’ve gotten into all kinds of mischief with #Elbaite during #YouFindARock:
Meanwhile, #Fluorite is just wandering around the planet looking like this:
I had exactly 30min entry-to-exit to explore @hmns.
I’d heard they have a solid collection of trilobites & the massive cut blue sapphire Siren of Serendip is a special exhibit.
But with the clock ticking down, I raced up the stairs & tumbled into Cullen Hall of Gems & Minerals.
I’d heard they have a solid collection of trilobites & the massive cut blue sapphire Siren of Serendip is a special exhibit.
But with the clock ticking down, I raced up the stairs & tumbled into Cullen Hall of Gems & Minerals.
#Crocoite: Shiny red-orange spiketastic lead chromate.
Despite being named for colour-matching saffron, lead makes it firmly “Do Not Lick.”
This particular spikefren is from Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, sticking with “everything cute in Australia can secretly kill you” theme.
Despite being named for colour-matching saffron, lead makes it firmly “Do Not Lick.”
This particular spikefren is from Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, sticking with “everything cute in Australia can secretly kill you” theme.
#Fluorite: a honkin’ massive cube of calcium fluorite with that particular dull-waxy translucence I wanna pet so bad.
No UV light to see if it’d fluoresce pretty colours for me.
From Nikolaevskiy Mine in Russia where hot sulfide solutions crystallized in limestone caverns.
No UV light to see if it’d fluoresce pretty colours for me.
From Nikolaevskiy Mine in Russia where hot sulfide solutions crystallized in limestone caverns.
