#printersolstice2425 — Public Fediverse posts

For the #printerSolstice2425 prompt silicon my #linocut of brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her 🧵1/n

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Since silicon is a common element in the crust, for the #printersolstice2425 prompt silicon I’m making a portrait of trailblazing geologist Florence Bascom (1862-1945), complete with geological cross sections and thin sections from her publications.
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For the @printersolstice #printerSolstice2425 prompt copper, I made a #linocut horseshoe crab (Tachypeus gigas) in grey, blue-bronze and dark brown on 8" x 8" cream-coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions. They get their name from their horseshoe like shape but they are not crabs; they are chelicerates, more closely related to arachnids and they are "living fossils" which have changed very little since 🧵

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For #printersolstice2425 prompt neon I made a lino block print of four Nixie tubes spelling the word “Neon” on lovely Japanese mulberry paper, 8” x 8”.

Nixie tubes , also known as or cold cathode display, are electronic devices used for displaying letters or numerals or other information using glow discharge. Introduced in 1955, they are prized today for their vintage aesthetics. Inside a glass tube, 🧵1/2

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The #printerSolstice2425 prompt this week is iron, so after talking last week about how certain numbers of nucleons are "magic" as you grow increasingly large nuclei, now we're talking about how you do that: how you grow nuclei from a single proton to the largest naturally-occurring transuranic elements. British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) is 1 of the people instrumental in building our understanding 🧵
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Making my #linocut portraits of #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) for #PrinterSolstice2425 prompt: iron! It’s about how most of you and I are stardust, made of elements built in stars through stellar nucleosynthesis. Supergiant stars build elements up to iron through nuclear fusion. In a famous paper known as B2FH, first-authored by Margaret Burbidge, they reviewed everything known about stellar 🧵1/2

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Working on my next #linocut for #printersolstice2425 - last week we talked about how some numbers of nucleons (neutrons and protons) are “magic” so sometimes if you add another the binding energy is lower than the last, so the resulting nuclei are more common and stable. This week is about how you do that…. How you add nucleons to nuclei and grow heavier elements.

Anyone recognize this #astrophysicist ?

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The next #printersolstice2425 prompt is Calcium, so I’m thinking bones, fossils and palaeontology. My block in progress.

Any guesses who I am portraying next?

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