To: Cold Heat
They are limonite spheres.
89 posted on
03/04/2005 8:38:45 PM PST by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
What? Lemon lite spheres? Who knew?
90 posted on
03/04/2005 8:41:59 PM PST by
The Loan Arranger
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To: MHGinTN
Limonite....???
What is that?
Sorry, I am a electrician. (Sounds like a explosive)
Come to think of it, I have seen some strange things in the foundry business where I was working back in the 80s.
Spheroid shapes with lime cores were sometimes created in the furnaces and ejected when additives were pored in,Lime being a deslag mineral that is used in nickle steel and alloys like stainless.
92 posted on
03/04/2005 8:46:05 PM PST by
Cold Heat
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To: MHGinTN
To add to my #92, I see by the article that a nickle steel alloy covering surrounds these things that is a quarter inch thick.
That is a bit weird. The coatings I have witnessed were paper thin and uneven.
Spheres like these are hard to reproduce naturally, they would need a bit of help from a lack of gravity perhaps.
Or some out of my mind type assumption.
Perhaps a huge explosion of molten matter from a meteorite of large size. the ejecta then would cool in a weightless environment.
96 posted on
03/04/2005 8:56:23 PM PST by
Cold Heat
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