[Snail]

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.

[lostllama]

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.

[General Battuta]

Nope I am sorry, technetium is an important form of moon goo.

[lostllama]

Ah, I should've known that you meant it as a reference to Star Control.

Oh wait... EVE Online, rather.

[Angelus]

Boobium and Wolframite.

[Luis Dias]

Amirite is also fashionable.

Amirite?






(gaaww that was so lame )

[lostllama]

I think mylonites are cool too.

Oh and pseudotachylite as well.

[sigtau]

Chromium.  EVERYTHING needs a chromium finish.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Rubidium.

It was the name of an awesome ship in Imperium Galactica 2 demo, equipped with an ultra blue death ray of utter destruction.

[Nohiki]

Chernobylite

[Black Wolf]

Silica.

[watsisname]

Celestine is kinda pretty, especially when it's the blue variety.

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

[Pred the Penguin]

Potassium alum
Hurray for more conventional uses!

[Snail]

ill admit it im a huge fan of sodium chloride

[Bobboau]

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.

[watsisname]

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.


               before exposure                        during exposure to 405nm laser              ~0.5 seconds after exposure

[Mongoose]

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. )

[Pred the Penguin]

That doesn't sound like a bad way to spend 4 hours.

[Mars]

Tourmaline

[Flipside]

Adamantine

or Mithril <_<