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JohnnyRockets
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17 May 2020
03:32:46pm
Hi all,

Just hang'in out today checking out some of my FDC's.

This one caught my eye for minerals!

It is quite attractive and a bit odd possibly?


I didn't know that petrified wood was a mineral?


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Cool stuff! Happy



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17 May 2020
03:52:12pm
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From Wikipedia;

Petrified wood (from the Latin root petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone") is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having been replaced by stone via a mineralization process that often includes permineralization and replacement.

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JohnnyRockets
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17 May 2020
05:02:06pm
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LOL!

Thanks, there you go, a mineral it is!

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17 May 2020
07:36:04pm
re: Not a mineral? What?

Generally the mineral in question is a cryptocrystalline form of silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is better known as quartz.

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18 May 2020
08:51:41am

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and, four silicon dioxides gives us a gallonz



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29 May 2020
03:07:01pm
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looks good enough to eat to me but it is not a piece of cheesecake, it is a Red agate and White Opal with Botryodial Chalcedony; it was found in Central Nevada.
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29 May 2020
04:38:08pm
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This agate and opal photo has also been floating around over the last several days. The “graham cracker crust” almost looks too good to be true; wonder if it is Photoshopped?

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29 May 2020
07:24:18pm
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Good one Dennis!


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29 May 2020
11:54:14pm
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That red agate is something else.

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30 May 2020
02:12:46am
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"and, four silicon dioxides gives us a gallonz"



If I ever visit the UK, perhaps I should say, "Bartender, give me a half silicon dioxide!"

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30 May 2020
08:03:39am
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"Bartender, give me a half silicon dioxide!"




....of?

...Guinness Stout?!?


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02 Dec 2020
08:43:20pm
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02 Dec 2020
09:17:23pm
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In paleontology circles, I believe these are classified as "coprolite"....
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