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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:51 pm
by wayfriend
Uranium 235
Gojiro himself is great fun. Weighing in at 50 tons, with radiation breath and a distinctly blue-collar outlook, this behemoth is given to four-letter expletives and irreverent observations. To unwind in his lair, he watches television and gets stoned by smoking nuggets of uranium 235. But, as the only living giant lizard, Gojiro can also be pathetic: the bomb has spared his life but made him a freak, put him outside reptile society.
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 6:31 pm
by deer of the dawn
Vanadinite
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:56 pm
by wayfriend
Watermelon Tourmaline
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:33 am
by Cord Hurn
Xenoblast
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:23 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Yellowstone igneous rock: Pyroxenite
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:46 am
by Cord Hurn
Zircon ("Ain't it purdy?"
)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:27 pm
by wayfriend
Almandine
It contains two equivalent magnetic sublattices. FACT!
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:30 am
by JIkj fjds j
Bridge crystal - Ewok artefact.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:46 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
My older son says: "I will have my revenge on Sorus!
Carrot Colored Copper Bars! Triple score!"
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:03 pm
by deer of the dawn
A girl's best friend. (not really)
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:47 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
the Elessar / Elfstone / Stone of Earendil / emerald of Aragorn
(quadruple-score?)
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 10:43 pm
by Cord Hurn
Feldspar
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:16 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Gagate galvanic generator
An attractive turn of the century quackery device in the form of a pendant.
The knowledge that electrical currents were created when certain metal
were juxtaposed was the basis on which many such devices were said to have
widespread therapeutic effects as galvanic generators.
Link
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 1:14 am
by Linna Heartbooger
Hematite (just to bump it up to the top of Mallory's list so people remember it):
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:14 pm
by deer of the dawn
Iocaine crystals, from which the odorless, tasteless, deadly powder is compounded.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:26 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Jade:
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:13 am
by deer of the dawn
Kyanite
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:01 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Lapis Lazuli:
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 10:46 am
by JIkj fjds j
M. cavernosa - Great star coral
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:45 pm
by aTOMiC
Norite