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, you celebrate by frolicking around Portugal.
A green cube catches your eye. #YouFindARock. It won’t hurt you even if you’re a bit reckless. It is mesmerizing.
Rui Nunes
, you celebrate by frolicking around Portugal.A green cube catches your eye. #YouFindARock. It won’t hurt you even if you’re a bit reckless. It is mesmerizing.
Rui Nunes
“Ooooooooh,” you coo, all worries immediately forgotten. “Who are you?!”
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> Lick
You lazily lap the mineral, lick your lips, and take in the fascinating flavour.
“Sweet, yet metallic,” you muse, “with an almost bitter-acidic aftertaste...”
You contemplate it carefully. “Is that sulfuric acid?” you realize. “...I’m glad I’m invulnerable today.”
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You lazily lap the mineral, lick your lips, and take in the fascinating flavour.
“Sweet, yet metallic,” you muse, “with an almost bitter-acidic aftertaste...”
You contemplate it carefully. “Is that sulfuric acid?” you realize. “...I’m glad I’m invulnerable today.”
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> Bake
“This invulnerability potion is amaaaaaazing” you drawl, popping the green cube in an oven without fear of huffing sulfuric acid when dehydrating the hydrated iron sulphate melanterite into a new mineral product.
“But which mineral should I investigate now?!”
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“This invulnerability potion is amaaaaaazing” you drawl, popping the green cube in an oven without fear of huffing sulfuric acid when dehydrating the hydrated iron sulphate melanterite into a new mineral product.
“But which mineral should I investigate now?!”
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> Investigate rozenite
“Pyrite oxidizes into melanterite, which dehydrates into rozenite,” you recite.
It’s always fun when #YouFindARock twice with one sample!
Vincent Bourgoin
“Pyrite oxidizes into melanterite, which dehydrates into rozenite,” you recite.
It’s always fun when #YouFindARock twice with one sample!
Vincent Bourgoin
“Hey, new friend!” you welcome the curling fibrous white mineral. “What tricks have you got for me?”
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> Dunk
You drop the mineral in a glass of water.
It dissolves.
“Oh!” you exclaim. “Errr... whoops?”
You shrug, then wander off to France and start poking around the 20-30 million year old former ocean now known as Mulhouse Basin. #YouFindARock
Donald J. Eicher
You drop the mineral in a glass of water.
It dissolves.
“Oh!” you exclaim. “Errr... whoops?”
You shrug, then wander off to France and start poking around the 20-30 million year old former ocean now known as Mulhouse Basin. #YouFindARock
Donald J. Eicher
You look around at the nearby salty halite and sour sylvite. A slow grin builds as realization dawns.
“I know EXACTLY what I’m going to do first,” you announce.
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“I know EXACTLY what I’m going to do first,” you announce.
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> Lick
You don’t even pretend to hesitate before popping the carnallite in your mouth. You immediately sputter.
“Bitter! So bitter!!” you whimper at the sharp, harsh taste.
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You don’t even pretend to hesitate before popping the carnallite in your mouth. You immediately sputter.
“Bitter! So bitter!!” you whimper at the sharp, harsh taste.
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> Burn it!!
You light a flame and carefully maneuver a flake of the mineral into it.
The flame turns violet.
“Fused potassium is so pretty,” you sigh contentedly.
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You light a flame and carefully maneuver a flake of the mineral into it.
The flame turns violet.
“Fused potassium is so pretty,” you sigh contentedly.
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> Scratch
You give the carnallite a firm scritching, and find it had the exact same hardness as your fingernails (Mohs 2.5).
“Perfection!”
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You give the carnallite a firm scritching, and find it had the exact same hardness as your fingernails (Mohs 2.5).
“Perfection!”
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> Bring near water
You leave the carnallite in a humid environment while you fuss with other distractions. You return to find it partially dissolved.
“You’re deliquescent?!” you exclaim, both impressed & betrayed that it incorporated atmospheric water into its structure.
You leave the carnallite in a humid environment while you fuss with other distractions. You return to find it partially dissolved.
“You’re deliquescent?!” you exclaim, both impressed & betrayed that it incorporated atmospheric water into its structure.
> Douse in water
You pause, shrug, and toss the evaporate into a glass of water.
It promptly dissolves, just like it’s halite kin.
You eye the glass thoughtfully.
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You pause, shrug, and toss the evaporate into a glass of water.
It promptly dissolves, just like it’s halite kin.
You eye the glass thoughtfully.
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> Drink
“Bottom’s up!” You toast, temporarily forgetting how bitter carnallite was in solid form. You chug the glass, then immediately regret your life choices as your tongue lodges strident protests.
You look around, bereft of minerals.
“Bottom’s up!” You toast, temporarily forgetting how bitter carnallite was in solid form. You chug the glass, then immediately regret your life choices as your tongue lodges strident protests.
You look around, bereft of minerals.
You skip off to the San Bernardino mountains in California, admiring what a few million years of tectonic uplift can do for topography.
#YouFindARock. It’s a chunky translucent pale olive green crystal. You immediately fall in love.
Arliguie M
#YouFindARock. It’s a chunky translucent pale olive green crystal. You immediately fall in love.
Arliguie M
“Why hello, my stubby friend!” you greet it. “How shall we begin?”
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> Lick
You immediately swipe your tongue across a scaly crystal face.
“Mmmm, salty!” you discover, pleased to wash away the bitterness of your proper escapade.
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You immediately swipe your tongue across a scaly crystal face.
“Mmmm, salty!” you discover, pleased to wash away the bitterness of your proper escapade.
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> Pet
You settle down next to the crystal and give it a good petting.
“It’s been a long day,” you confide to the mineral while enjoying the fine cracks and scales breaking up smooth facets. “I’ll rest with you for a while.”
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You settle down next to the crystal and give it a good petting.
“It’s been a long day,” you confide to the mineral while enjoying the fine cracks and scales breaking up smooth facets. “I’ll rest with you for a while.”
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> Scritch
Feeling better after a rest, you give the rock a scritch. It’s harder than your fingernails.
You pull out a copper coin and try again. It almost resists, but the coin leaves a faint mark.
“Moh’s hardness of 3-3.5? Salty? With this crystal shape? Must be Hanksite.”
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Feeling better after a rest, you give the rock a scritch. It’s harder than your fingernails.
You pull out a copper coin and try again. It almost resists, but the coin leaves a faint mark.
“Moh’s hardness of 3-3.5? Salty? With this crystal shape? Must be Hanksite.”
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> zap zap zap
You pull out a UV flashlight and dance it across the hanksite.
It rewards you with a flash of pale yellow fluorescence.
“D’aww, you’re a cutie!” you praise, continuing to splash UV light to excite more electrons just because you can.
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You pull out a UV flashlight and dance it across the hanksite.
It rewards you with a flash of pale yellow fluorescence.
“D’aww, you’re a cutie!” you praise, continuing to splash UV light to excite more electrons just because you can.
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> Douse
You drop the hanksite into a bucket of water. Like all evaporates, it starts to dissolve into a saline solution.
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You drop the hanksite into a bucket of water. Like all evaporates, it starts to dissolve into a saline solution.
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