u/IceColdJaderade

Rainbow fluorite?
▲ 146 r/Crystals

Rainbow fluorite?

Hi all, bought this slab of supposed rainbow fluorite at a local vintage mall for $22. I'm inclined to believe it's real, since I don't know how you could do carefully dye each layer. That said, it's pretty hard to believe a single specimen could have so many colors/layers. Does anyone have experience with rainbow fluorite that might be able to share helpful information?
Thanks in advance!

u/IceColdJaderade — 1 day ago

Unexpected crystal

Today I discovered a weird phenomenon. I had a slab of french salted butter that was about 80% consumed out on the counter. I keep it in its foil wrapper, and scoop some out when it is bound for toast.

I haven’t used it in more than 2 months and decided to do a welfare check to ensure it wasn’t getting moldy (occasionally moist air gets trapped in a butter storage situation and mold can grow).

What I discovered wasn’t mold, but crystal salt protruding from the margin of the margarine.
My only guess here is that on especially warm days (which we did have a few in the past month) caused the butter to partially melt and the salt concentrated near the edge. This fed an existing salt grain which acted as a seed, and the crystal grew.

Does anyone have any idea on whether there is a more correct circumstance this could have allowed for salty zeolites to grow from the butter surface? I have never seen this.

u/IceColdJaderade — 3 days ago
▲ 85 r/halo

My first BOB Elite

Forgive me if this elite is a different rank, but in all my years of playing Halo: Reach, I've never noticed encountering a BOB. I even only recently learned about them because of this subreddit.

Encountered this guy on sword base, where he took a full clip of consecutive sniper rounds to the head to defeat. Thought his armor was cool.

u/IceColdJaderade — 1 month ago