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Annual pre-christmas trip to b. a. Sweetie Candy Company, a candy warehouse: They have all the PEZ (even @ 15mm there's too much to...

Carbonatite, Fen complex. The Fen Complex experienced pluri-metasomatic processes consisting of at least two main phases of...

Carbonatite, Fen complex. This sample displays a transition from, on one side carbonatite, then, moving from left to right, an apparent...

Carbonatite, Fen Complex. This sample could be classified as Alvikite, but the real interest I have is in the bands of color that...

Really excellent photos- both compositionally and technically (exposure, etc)- thanks for posting!

Another altered carbonatite: Altered carbonatite. A veinlet of carbonatite intrudes into an existing carbonatite pluton, bisecting a...

Yes, but the amount of energy radiated by the wire will be much lower than the sun. The amount of energy you need to absorb to protect...

Interesting question- one I had not thought of. First, confined plasmas have a variety of radiation emission mechanisms, not just...

Carbonatite, Fen Complex. This sample has a significant amount of apatite, generally arranged either in aggregations of elongated...

Well.... if you know the emissivity, then I would agree that a commercial IR detector/camera can hit that 5% accuracy. The problem is...