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Minerals - Unknown I

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Unknown mineral. If anyone knows anout this, let me know. :)
Image size
2272x1704px 1.85 MB
Make
FUJIFILM
Model
FinePix S5500
Shutter Speed
1/9 second
Aperture
F/2.9
Focal Length
8 mm
ISO Speed
64
Date Taken
Jan 1, 2004, 1:04:36 AM
Sensor Size
5mm
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Looks like Carborundum.
Carborundum is actually the worlds very first artificially produced mineral. In the mid 1880’s an inventor/scientist 
named Edward G. Acheson, who had worked as assistant manager of European interests for Thomas Edison, 
started his own experimental laboratory in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania. He had a crazy notion that he could 
produce man made diamonds by dissolving carbon into molten corundum (natural aluminum oxide) with intense 
heat from electrical furnaces. His experiments failed to produce diamonds of course, but he actually produced a 
substance that proved to be second only to diamonds in hardness and abrasive ability. Since this product came 
from a compound of Carbon and Corundum, he named it “Carborundum”. Years later a chemical analysis 
determined the substance to actually be silicon carbide. 
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