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Aurora quartz 🤩 (lemmy.today)
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Picked this bad boy up from a local oddities expo. Aurora quartz is natural quartz that has been bonded with metal vapor in a vacuum chamber to give it an iridescent shine

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

That's so cool. Is it bismuth vapor? I'm looking up how to make my own immediately.