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1 posted on 11/17/2021 3:45:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

This is actually pretty cool. Wonder what it will end up being worth? Since it is the only one on earth.


2 posted on 11/17/2021 3:53:10 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

I have my own mineral—AVOIDINITE.

Whenever the wife and I walking down the sidewalk of a tourist town, I toss out some AVOIDINITE and she has no desire to enter a cutesy shop.


3 posted on 11/17/2021 4:01:33 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: BenLurkin

I predict very few will end up in jewelry. Ugly stone:

https://www.popsci.com/uploads/2021/11/16/celestian-NHMLA-davemaoite.jpg


5 posted on 11/17/2021 4:01:58 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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It has to hold up better than my Dollar Store tools made out of Chinesium.


10 posted on 11/17/2021 4:26:53 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought growing old would take longer.)
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To: BenLurkin; Daffynition; cyn
Davemaoite -- CaSiO3

Well in that case,

"And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." (Mark 13:37)

It's a weird little world out there!

11 posted on 11/17/2021 4:35:06 PM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: BenLurkin

specialized X-ray, known as a synchrotron, to study it.…”””

Oh c’mon that word was invented by a circa 1955 SCI FI screenwriter.


13 posted on 11/17/2021 4:43:43 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dave’s not here.


15 posted on 11/17/2021 5:18:01 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

There is a vast amount of another mineral, called Ringwoodite, found deep underground, which is believed to have between 1 and 3 times the water that is found on the surface of Earth.


16 posted on 11/17/2021 6:20:42 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (META - Make Everything Trump Again)
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To: BenLurkin

All the way from the lower mantle to the surface, over 400 miles. That is one amazing journey even for a diamond.


17 posted on 11/17/2021 6:36:24 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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