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Apr 25, 2023 1:49 PM
iamthecomet
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I personally loved your rock show and that labradorite is cool af.
jrutter9
This dude rocks.
tinydog
johncooper8t67
But Amethysts look like something fairies would draw their power from in the hidden fairy valley of Amethystria!? But sure, average, cheap and okay….. 🧚♂️🧚🏾♀️🍄
Fishkeeper
They're one of the most common "cool rock u can buy for cool rock collection" rocks, so I guess OP might be a bit burnt out on them.
moendopi
Except the majority of those were actually individual minerals, not rocks.
literallymike
No onyx or obsidian?
dataismyspiritanimal
Cool rocks! I also have a petoskey stone that was made into a necklace. Did you know that it’s Michigan’s state rock?
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
I've got some absolute unit Petoskey stones because everybody only ever looks for them at the beach.
TektronixTDS360
Cool rocks.
Gwenx
I love your rocks! I have a few myself, but they are smol and not as cool haha!
DerkatBaron
This post rocks!
Jinxies
Rocks are cool.
faphappyscreencappy
FatBastardVegetarian
BluePlanet514
These ARE the coolest rocks!!! Thank you for posting and for the explanations. Quite interesting.
whapowpow
UpvoteBuddyJesus
Obligatory
Behleren
how dare you slander our best boy amethyst!
oaktreenaps
Rock on!
ImgurNeedsMoreSmartass
Obligatory JESUS CHRIST MARIE
LieutenantBlueBird
THEYRE MINERALS!
ExplodingRobotColon
Quizz25S
If you say rock one more god damn time...
ElbowDeepInAMoose
Rock n stone!
Quizz25S
"Rock'n stone brother!" "Rock'n Stone!" Love that game
omnipotentpasta
AlmightyThor117
zeacorzeppelin10
This totally rocks
IamGettingReallyBadWithTheDadJokes
You really shouldn’t take post like these for…granite.
spiderzim
Technically the “rocks that used to be other things” didn’t actually used to be those other things, they just took the place and form of those other things. Kind of like when the pod people did that to us.
aurifex
The colours and characteristics of minerals is a result of its environment and other surrounding minerals. It is not uncommon to still find occlusions of another stone within a larger stone.
FelixGeralt
This post rocks!
YouWonTheGam3
https://youtu.be/MFTUgL2E8AE
thedudeman519
Damn it 4 days late to the party
MurderKittyComics
Geology rocks
YouWonTheGam3
https://youtu.be/MFTUgL2E8AE
TallyReign
Isn't there a theory that Labradorite is the Sunstone that the Vikings used to navigate at sea even on cloudy days to determine their latitude?
SpockIsMyHomeboy
Gneiss!
3KnucklesDeep
I'm too igneous to have any rock puns. I pumice to try harder.
Taliska
dont take cool rocks for Granite...
Tigersterne
Cummingtonite?
Aurgasmic
I can be ;)
TheCrimsonRaven
Schist!
dirrrtypiratehookerrr
Aww schist
OogaOogaMooshka
iambient
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
Yyyoink
JustBeCoolBruh
kingoftheamericasI
ElbowDeepInAMoose
Cave in Mexico. (Not my cave, crystals, pic, or spelunkers)
Flyingwigs
That cave was only accessible when the mine pumps were running, it was about 130F inside so they couldn't stay inside for more than like 13 minutes at a time.
sniggly5212
I watch Steven Universe. I know what's going on here.
kahooki
PAIGE NO!
Darthsnuggle
PAIGE DO WHAT YOU WANT!
Twinklepot
They are awesome! Particularly interested in your labradorite #13 and #14. I have a ring made with a spectralite, a type of labradorite I believe.
Twinklepot
The stone reminds me of the cloudy ocean.
BlackBirchOwl
I was thinking that too. Or the sky right just after a storm breaks.
Smidge204
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite
SerenePrincess013
Welp, now I need to start carrying a piece of this with me everywhere I go.
JCBalance
Nice cleavage
Thojira
funny that it was named after the town : cummington
ifyouwanttickbuyaclock
Getting your Rocks off
Kimmerdinger
Oh. My. Lord! Hahahaha xD now that's pure gold :'D
Zhagtin
No, it's Cummingtonite.
mouseasw
*you're* cummingtonight!
johneventually1
Yo, girl! Are you a metamorphic amphibole? Because you are Cummingtonite.
nola26
I wish I had more upvotes to give to you.
johneventually1
Thank you! Just doing my part 🫡
BernieSandersMittens
lMrBodybagl
HandoB4Javert
HereForAWhile
For anyone that wonders... A mineral is a naturally occurring substance with distinctive chemical and physical properties, composition and atomic structure. Rocks are generally made up of two of more minerals, mixed up through geological processes
riplikash
I've always found the nitpicking about it too be off outside of a classroom saying. A rock is a conglomerate of "one or more" minerals. So it's not incorrect to call any mineral sample a rock. You can have a monomineral rock. It's a valid use of the word.
MADFOX
They’re rocks!
NinjaCongo
This whole post has been a setup for that comment and you know it @OP!
iamthecomet
Nope. It was always about the rock facts.
NinjaCongo
I, too, am passionate about the rocks!
WeAreNotSmilesTImes
I still think of that scene where Walt went into a highly detailed explanation of the colors of some of Hank's specimens. It took the wind out of his sails. Walt just couldn't let Hank have his moment.
Ruderali
It kinda felt like that was the deep end for Walt. Everything else up to that point was on some level about paying his medical bills and providing for his family. That just felt "out of character" for the Walt at the start of the show but made perfect sense with where the character had gone
riplikash
I liked the analysis I saw recently arguing that BB was a good example of a show without a character arc. Walt never truly changed. He was just put in a variety of situations that revealed who he was the whole time.
Machino
I wouldn't say without a character arc, Jessie certainly changed and grew throughout the show. But I do really like that take for Walt, it's fitting
riplikash
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I agree. It wasn't a SHOW with no character ARCS. It was a a show where the primary PROTAGANIST didn't have a character arc. Many people tend to think a character arc is a necessary part of good story telling, but it's not. It's just a single type of story, and it's neat to have such a great example of an alternative storytelling style.
cornflakethief
I came looking for this reply
chaseNC
I was stupid enough to think "Oh I have a perfect reply for this" and this img is exactly what I was thinking but of course a few hundred people thought of it before me.
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
Looking for this reply also made me cum.
lookatthisphotographeverytimeidoitmakesmelaugh
Javin12345
Welley
Enyoyer
sophiadalke
Thank you, as someone who has taught the difference between rocks and minerals to kids it was really grating on me.
riplikash
Many of those are "rocks". I might even argue most. They are made up of more than a single mineral.
masterpainimeanbetty1
i legit don't know the difference, i just thought it was hank being hank. if you would like to teach, i would love to learn.
RuthlessRuben
If I remember it correctly, and I may be torn to shreds by angry geologists in due time, granite is a rock, and the quartz, felspar and plagioclase that make up that rock are minerals.
turbodong
Your comment triggered my EVE online ptsd.
Rubblebubble
so a question for you (or those future geologists) - is it that the minerals are individual substances that make up the rock while 'rocks' are always combinations of a variety of minerals?
RuthlessRuben
I think that's it, but I am to scared for geologists to make a definite statement here. Those guys have hammers.
riplikash
That is correct. Though, most of these would be rocks such happen to showcase a particular mineral.
Skamandrius
a mineral is any inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure, with known physical and chemical properties that are the same across any samples of the same substance. A rock is an assemblage of minerals. Some rocks can be mono-mineralic though, and some minerals can be single elements (like elemental gold or copper). So technically the person in the post is right about a few of their samples being rocks, but some would be better called minerals (source: Am geologist)
Apollymkatistrafia
I personally want some Fordite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite
Almaadin
Fordite is cool, but not a rock. This post is about rocks.
Fishkeeper
Depends how you define "rock".
johneventually1
Well, it's about cool rocks. It is cool, but might not meet the definition of rock. Petrified wood was noted as not REALLY a rock, so as long as you add a description, I see no harm in collecting cool rocks anyway. Except for the spicy ones or the ones that make your organs melt. And the liquid ones like mercury. And lead, and... Idk anymore but definitely be careful of some rocks.
Fishkeeper
Oh, mercury and lead are fine, you just have to have a little common sense about how you handle them.
johneventually1
Gneiss
rach13379
I want some cummingtonite
Blimjoe
Detroit agate
Anahi1138
Check Etsy! I've gotten some nice amounts of New fordite in bulk for a good price before https://www.etsy.com/search?q=fordite&ref=search_bar
Escapist83
afnoot42
I bet Toyotite is better
unluckyandbored
Suggest not handling it barehanded. May contain lead and other toxic stuff.
IOnlyFavoriteDickButtAndImNotEvenMad
That's what my wedding ring is made of! Fordite and Jack Daniels barrel.
BurnieCinders
I've got a few pieces. Made a GF some earings out of it, she dumped me before the gifting, suck it Lucy I'm keeping the earings.
notkvothethebloodless
Enjoy all the lead poisoning you'll get from digging it up!
yourcommentisstupid
They're likely not talking about genuine paint scrapings from Ford. Just get a few rattle cans and layer
KnifeKnut
One example of the increasingly common rocks and minerals from the anthropocene era. Off the top of my head, in addition to fordite: fired bricks, concrete, glass, I forget what the plastic sand agglomeration from Beach fires is is called, Steel smelting slag (often mistaken by neophyte RockHounds to be meteorites), stainless steel, strange forms of elemental copper, fiber resin composites, asphalt pavement, and many more I am certainly missing that do not degrade on geologic time scales.
Snuffdigit
The numenera
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
Last clause made me sad.
Fishkeeper
Well, that doesn't have to be inherently a bad thing. As far as nature is concerned, rocks of similar properties are rocks of similar properties, and plenty of things are entirely happy to live in glass bottles and cinderblocks.
JericoJones23
Industrial obsidian also
Fishkeeper
Well, now I'm curious.
KnifeKnut
You are going to have to be a little more descriptive since I search that doesn't turn anything up
NinjaCongo
@JericoJones23
JericoJones23
Wow you're right. There is nothing about this. So i moved a few years ago to a town that used to be an industrial town. I was working once in an old factory area and found something that looks like obsidian, and a lot of it. Posted it in a geology group and they said it might industrial waste and they called it industrial obsidian.
KnifeKnut
Reminds me of another anthropocene rock, vitrified nuclear waste.
KnifeKnut
Since I don't want you to dox yourself can you at least tell me what kind of industry it was?.