#gemology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gemology, aggregated by home.social.
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@famousblueben Ben @famousblueben , and Greg @GPJohnston,
I got lots of results searching Mastodon for Rockhounding, Geology, Lapidary, RockTumbling, Gemology, Crystallography, etc.No rock clubs meeting online, yet, though.
Different search results with and without intercaps, e.g., rockhounding, and RockHounding. (Why? :blobcatthinkingsmirk: :shrug:)
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Diamond inclusions (Mineralogy 💎)
Diamond inclusions are the non-diamond materials that get encapsulated inside diamond during its formation process in the mantle. The trapped materials can be other minerals or fluids like water. Since diamonds have high strength and low reactivity with either the inclusion or the volcanic host rocks which carry the diamond to the Earth's surface, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_inclusions
#DiamondInclusions #Diamond #Gemology #Petrology #Mineralogy