Zincite Specimens, Manmade Smokestack Crystals from Poland

Zincite Specimens, Manmade Smokestack Crystals from PolandThese are specimens of zincite, or zinc oxide, which grew in a refinery smokestack in Poland. Apparently this material was accidentally produced in an old Soviet era refinery which had very dirty, zinc rich exhaust as the gases cooled the zinc oxide crystallized out, slowly building up transparent gemmy crystals in a variety of colors and forms. Some are even fluorescent, in part or in whole. Specimens like this are called 'anthropogenic' not

phosphorescence

I cut this one in a triforce-inspired design

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Rivers wore down a gem-rich host rock

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These are prepolish and polishing compounds

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These could be used to store your most precious items

These might have been intended for lasers

it truly is universal

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