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  1. Hmmmmm.... I like how fluffy #okenite is - also fun fact: it turns gelatinous in HCl! (The things you learn from reading the whole #mindat page, lol. [Side note does Mindat have an @ over here?]) I think that would be fun to poke under a fume hood. (Alas I don't have any okenite or access to a fume hood.)

    But I think I'm gonna go with #stibnite - kohl has been important for thousands of years, after all; plus, antimony has loads of uses both modern and ancient, iirc. (Don't ask me to name any right now lol. Migraine brain says mmm rocks.) And, stibnite *is* closely associated with arsenic - very similar symptoms if you ingest it, actually.

    One wonders if using kohl was also poisoning oneself.... 🤔

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  2. Repost from MinCup24: Antimony Tin Oxide scatters the wavelengths of infrared light emitted by warm humans. The antimony is often sourced from . This material is being used to create fabric infrared invisibility cloaks!

    from Jeong et al. (2020) NPG Asia Materials

  3. Antimony Tin Oxide scatters the wavelengths of infrared light emitted by warm humans. The antimony is often sourced from . This material is being used to create fabric infrared invisibility cloaks!

    from Jeong et al. (2020) NPG Asia Materials

  4. Vote for #stibnite in #MinCup23 because #Antimony Carver from Gunnerkrigg Court gunnerkrigg.com is the main character in an amazing #webcomic

  5. So I had to go remind myself what #stibnite is because frankly I'm more used to seeing "antimony" still, but...

    as much as #sodalite is fun and pretty... listen, it's not chaos. Stibnite is basically chaos in most of its historical uses, iirc!

    Also it often co-occurs with things like #realgar, #cinnabar, #orpiment, and #galena... now that's some fun chaos company. Vote Stibnite for chaos!! #MinCup23