Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the latest addition to my nerd collection: a specimen of cinnabar on dolomite. Cinnabar is the red crystal and the dolomite is the white rock. Cinnabar's chemical composition is HgS - Mercury Sulfide - which means it's poisonous. This means that despite the fact that the specimen looks like strawberries and cream does NOT mean that it is edible.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Getting my rock on
Posted by PrincessPi at 3:15 PM
Labels: cinnabar, dolomite, earth science, geology, I'm a nerd, rocks and minerals
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1 comments:
Cool. But I thought Cinnabar was that place in the mall that makes sticky buns.
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