#pigments — Public Fediverse posts
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Baryte might be useful geochronology but you can’t vote against 164,000 years of art history!
From cave painting to today! Electrically conductive hematite is a pigment with a storied history in red ochre & chalk.
Vote for art & human culture. Vote hematite! #MinCup25
Vote for hematite here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2m03
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Round 3 Match 1 of #MinCup24 is a challenge for my art or physics voting scheme!
Perovskite wins the physics vote with its exciting possible origins in the mantle or even a Brown dwarf + its potential for use in solar panels
Stibnite wins the art vote for kohl, glassmaking & pyrotechnics & as a grey-black pigment for centuries