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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colonol Dekker on June 22, 2011, 06:04:45 am
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Well, what is it? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minerals)
I'm loving Jamesonite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamesonite) at the moment. It's just neat :yes:
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Tiberium.
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Ultramarines? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine)
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Ultramarines? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine)
Papa Smurf, you say?
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Malachite
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Kyanite, I guess. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyanite)
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Don't think I really have a favorite, but for some reason the pistachio nut green of epidote (http://planetgemstones.blogspot.com/2010/12/epidote-and-unakite.html) appeals. Those crystals remind me of Necrons.
Also naqahdah if we're talking fictional minerals.
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Does Tamahagane count?, I was never really good with anything like this.
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Unobtanium. My fav ever.
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Magnetite.
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IIRC Zinc combusts into sweet purple flame when applied to H2O
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Aragonite is quite cool
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Fluorite. Definitely.
I've got a near-ultraviolet 405 nm laser I sometimes play around with. Fluorite is probably my favorite thing to shoot with it because it fluoresces in so many different colors depending on the impurities. That and it frequently looks like a bunch of overlapping cubes. Somehow, that's just cool.
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That's quite cool too.
What octahedral blue minerals are there
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Moonstone! It maybe cures cancer... or causes it!
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Technetium
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What about molybdenum? In BP, the hull of the Deimos corvettes (and even more ships) are made of this.*
*If I remember right
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Tiberium. If not...hell, I don't want to settle for anything else :P
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A friend of mine once put her clear(-ish) quartz crystal key fob into an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, which somehow turned the middle of it pink if I remember right. It didn't change back to its original colour for a while after it had been removed, which was kind of neat.
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Iridium.
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What about molybdenum? In BP, the hull of the Deimos corvettes (and even more ships) are made of this.*
*If I remember right
It's not only in BP, it's also in canon.
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Technetium
What about molybdenum? In BP, the hull of the Deimos corvettes (and even more ships) are made of this.*
*If I remember right
Iridium.
IIRC Zinc combusts into sweet purple flame when applied to H2O
My understanding is that these are elements, not minerals....at least, going by the geological meaning of the word. There is a mineral called molybdenite, and I think there's one called irite.
I'm guessing that uraninite/pitchblende is Nuke's favorite.
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Nope I am sorry, technetium is an important form of moon goo.
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Ah, I should've known that you meant it as a reference to Star Control.
Oh wait... EVE Online, rather.
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Boobium and Wolframite.
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Amirite is also fashionable.
Amirite?
(gaaww that was so lame :lol: )
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I think mylonites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylonite) are cool too.
Oh and pseudotachylite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotachylite) as well.
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Chromium. EVERYTHING needs a chromium finish.
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Rubidium.
It was the name of an awesome ship in Imperium Galactica 2 demo, equipped with an ultra blue death ray of utter destruction.
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Chernobylite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobylite)
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Silica. :p
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Celestine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestine_%28mineral%29) is kinda pretty, especially when it's the blue (http://www.rocksandcreations.com/graphics/minerals/celestite.jpg) variety.
Ametrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ametrine) is cool, I was able to go into a mine of it down in Bolivia. :)
But I got to agree with perihelion in that fluorite is the most awesome mineral ever. I have a golf-ball sized emerald-green specimen that glows a brilliant bluish white under UV. :3
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Potassium alum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_alum) :D
Hurray for more conventional uses!
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ill admit it im a huge fan of sodium chloride
:(
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Calcite how is it that no one else has this as theirs.
I actually have a big ole chunk of this sitting on a shelf.
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I almost forgot I had calcite in my collection -- a few crystals set within an amethyst geode slice. It actually exhibits a minor form of phosporescence, glowing a demonic reddish/orange for about a second after exposure to near-UV light. Pretty cool stuff.
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2729/beforejj.jpg) (http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9351/duringf.jpg) (http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/5036/afterc.jpg)
before exposure during exposure to 405nm laser ~0.5 seconds after exposure
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I've always liked the chunks of galena I have sitting around here somewhere. It's like an explosion of shiny black cubes.
(Also I may or may not have spent a good four hours in the minerals and gemstones wing of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History once. :nervous:)
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That doesn't sound like a bad way to spend 4 hours. :D
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Tourmaline
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Adamantine ;)
or Mithril <_<
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That doesn't sound like a bad way to spend 4 hours. :D
Oh no, it was great. There's something a bit awe-inspiring about looking at a 4-billion-year-old rock from the Moon. Along the same lines, if anyone's ever in Pittsburgh, check out the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. They have a really good minerals collection too, plus a fantastic dinosaur exhibit to boot.
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Element/Mineral difference highlight ;)
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Minerals can be individual elements or specific compounds. What matters is that it is a single substance, not an aggregate like "rocks."
...I'm sure most everyone here already knows that, but I think I'm seeing a little bit of confusion here and there.
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Yep, this is indeed correct. I was wrong earlier.
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(http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/2/2b/Minerals_SC1_Game1.jpg)
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I was waiting for someone else to make that joke :P
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LSA.
(If you get that, congratulations, you got screwed by Sierra like me!)
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LSA.
(If you get that, congratulations, you got screwed by Sierra like me!)
I don't get it :(
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I only know of one LSA and I don't think it's a mineral. :V
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Minerals can be individual elements or specific compounds. What matters is that it is a single substance, not an aggregate like "rocks."
Not strictly true. What matters is the regular crystalline structure. Pure elemental metals aren't minerals (although I do remember reading a paper thqt suggesged some situations where this wasn't strictly true wrt Gold, will need to check).
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(http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/2/2b/Minerals_SC1_Game1.jpg)
I was waiting for someone else to make that joke :P
YOU'VE NOT ENOUGH MINERALS!!!
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YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!!
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Tourmaline
This.
Because it's so bloody easy to identify. A real treat when you see it in an exam.
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Saw some cool looking minerals at the local museum. I have no idea what most of them were called. o_o
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Dilithium FTW.
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Salt is my most favorite mineral, without it I don't think we can live ;)
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Uraninite.
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Silica because it has so many different forms: quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, agates in all different colors, jasper...
Also corundum because it's awesome.
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Minerals can be individual elements or specific compounds. What matters is that it is a single substance, not an aggregate like "rocks."
Not strictly true. What matters is the regular crystalline structure. Pure elemental metals aren't minerals (although I do remember reading a paper thqt suggesged some situations where this wasn't strictly true wrt Gold, will need to check).
Thank you, Black Wolf.
There are a fair number of people around here in need of a periodic table, it would seem, because I'm seeing a fair number of elements that are most certainly NOT minerals (*coughmolybdenumchromiumiridiumcough*)
At any rate, pyrite is my favourite, though only if the person I'd be selling it to doesn't know what it is :P
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Always been an Iron-man myself.
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(http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/feldspar1.jpg)
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I'll take Ice for 1000, Alex.
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salt. love it as much as i hate graphite.
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salt. love it as much as i hate graphite.
you suuuuuck
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**** YEAH, OSBORNITE! (http://www.galleries.com/minerals/elements/osbornit/osbornit.htm)
/me plays Whole World's Fallin' Down