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I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
Fire agate
Fire Agate is a variety of chalcedony that so far has only been found in central and northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
It is thought Fire Agate formed 24 to 36 million years ago during massive volcanic activity that occurred in the area resulting in hot water filled with silica and iron oxide repeatedly filled cracks and bubbles in the surrounding rock.
Fire Agate displays similar iridescent coloration to Opal and its hardness of 5 to 7 makes it popular for use in jewellery as it’s able to withstand most scratching.
The color play is a result of alternating layers of silica and iron oxide which diffract light allowed to pass through and form an interference of color within the layering.
Mica
When I purchased this it was labelled as an unspecified Mica. In looking at this specimen I have been able to determine that specifically this is a chunk of Biotite.
Biotite is a dark colored iron rich mica that can occur as tabular or short prismatic pseudo-hexagonal crystals and also as disseminated flakes.
It can be black dark brown or dark green and like all Mica it’s pretty brittle.
The flake like structure of Biotite results in an almost metallic look when the specimen is viewed under light.
Tibetan Quartz
As the name suggests this variety of quartz is restricted to the Himalayan regions of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Northern India.
Also known as Tibetan Singing Quartz or Himalayan Quartz this variety of quartz is favoured for its clarity, transparency and its naturally occurring double terminated points.
Typically found in Pegmatite formations which are abundant in the Himalayas this quartz forms under immense pressure and heat.
The geological conditions in the region are thought to be a major factor influencing the exceptional clarity of this type of quartz.
This varient of Quartz often appears water clear with minimal inclusions.
Mother Of Pearl
Mother of Pearl is a naturally occurring organic material found making up the lining of some shells, primarily in warmer seas.
Abalone is one such shell that forms this material.
Mother of Pearl is commonly occuring in mollusc shells where the composition, number and arrangement of calcareous layers form distinct microstructures resulting in differing mechanical properties and coloration.
The beautiful colors have resulted in a long history of shells being carved into cameos and around the 19th century mother of pearl was widely used to carve into buttons.
Pyrope
This is one of the different subtypes of Garnet.
Pyrope is a magnesium aluminium garnet.
Pyrope can range in color from a rich red, dark red, violet red, rose red or reddish orange dependent on the levels of different minerals in the composition.
The majority of Pyrope is found as pebbles in placer deposits though they can also be found as rounded grains or crystals with dodecahedral, trapezoidal or hexoctahedral structure.
This type of garnet occurs as a high pressure mineral in metamorphic rock and can also be found in silica poor igneous rock and detrital deposits derived from them.
This is what Rasputin would've wanted.
I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds
is it working
Yes
Iceland Spar
Also known as Iceland Crystal this is a transparent variety of Calcite or Crystallised Calcium Carbonate.
It usually has a rhombohedral structure. Primarily found in Iceland it forms in mainly sedimentary environments but can also be found in hydrothermal veins and evaporite deposits.
The crystals display double refraction in which light is split into two rays that travel through the crystal at different speeds and directions. This results in objects being viewed through the crystal appearing to have been doubled.
It is thought that the Icelandic Sun Stone which is said to have aided in locating the sun in the sky when instructed from view by overcast conditions, stated in historical texts to have been used by Vikings to aid in navigation, was actually Iceland Spar.
Historically it has been used in telecommunications due to its unique optical properties.
Blue Sky Sapphire
Sapphire is a variety of the mineral Corundum that is most known for being blue in color though they can also occur in yellow, purple, orange and green.
The color varient of this one is called ‘Blue Sky’. This is a raw specimen that has not been cut or polished.
This particular specimen came from Madagascar.
This is also Sapphire.
More translucent than the first piece
Vivianite
A phosphate mineral that forms in the oxidisation zone of iron and manganese rich deposits of phosphate.
Vivianite is usually colourless when fresh however will oxidise to either a pale blue, greenish blue or deep indigo blue with a pearly sheen.
Before modern synthetic materials were developed Vivianite was the source of the rare and expensive pigment Blue Ochre.
Also vivianite.
This piece has tarnished due to light expososure but at certain angles you can still see a pale greenish color through it.
Fluorite
Pictured here is blue Fluorite and Rainbow Fluorite.
Fluorite is a halide that was formerly known as Fluorspar.
Fluorite is an importans industrial mineral as it has used in improving the fluidity of slags and refining metals in addition to being used in the manufacture of high octane fuels, steel and hydrofluoric acid.
More fluorite.
This is a really nice pale purple piece with a cubic structure from Pakistan.
Chrysocolla
A minor ire of cooper the name Chrysocolla comes from the Greek words ‘khrusós’ meaning ‘gold’ and ‘kolla’ meaning ‘glue’ which alludes to the mineral being used to solder gold.
This mineral can range in color from deep blue through to blue-green and is often used in jewellery in place of turquoise due to the fact it’s more common than turquoise and shares similar coloration.
Nice piece of Chrysocolla with Malachite inclusions
This is also Chrysocolla.
This is more of a granular specimen with more of a green color as opposed to blue.
It’s quite a hefty piece as it’s on hematite which also makes this specimen slightly magnetic.
Darwin Glass
This stuff is pretty interesting as it’s a naturally occurring glass that’s ONLY found in one specific region of Tasmania in Australia around the Mt Darwin area.
The origin is as a result of a meteorite strike with the impact crater being known as the Darwin Crater.
Based on the size and characteristics of the crater its estimated the meteorite would have been between 20 to 50 metres in diameter.
Darwin Glass can be seperated into two types. Type 1 is normally white or green in color and contains silica, magnesium and iron.
Type 2 like the piece here is darker in color and can be grey, dark green or black. This type contains less silica, magnesium and iron than Type 1 but also contains chromium, nickel and cobalt with it being theorised this differing composition is as a result of Type 2 containing elements of extraterrestrial material from the meteorite itself.
Using argon dating Darwin Glass has been dated at about 816,000 years old.
In 2013 scientists also discovered Darwin Glass contains preserved organic materials such as cellulose and polymers.
Darwin Glass can be found within a 410 km squared area around the impact crater.
It’s theorised the wide spread of the Darwin Glass resulted from high amounts of volatiles at the impact sight such as water which would have amplified the impact itself. The estimated impact force of the meteorite would have been around 20 megatons of energy.
Look at her go :)
Look at that little face <3
reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage
We need someone to actually build this cyberbeast once the poll ends
