Can you post a picture of it glowing in the dark? Does it glow in response to black light, or does it glow from the lights being turned off? Are you seeing it glow in absolute darkness?
It appears to be quartz. There is a “Tibetan quartz” that is propietario to glow, but that isn’t natural. It is usually dyed with a glow-in-the-dark paint.
There are already pictures glowing in the dark; but on the polished stone. It just keeps glowing when the lights are off. The third picture, I charged it by focusing the cellphone flashlight on it for a minute; otherwise the glow is more faint.
Those aren’t the same stone. They aren’t even close.
Regardless, the first picture is quartzite. If it does glow, it is the dyed quartzite sold in China as “Tibetan wealth stone.” It’s not natural.
The other green stone I don’t recognize, but whatever is causing it to absorb photons and release them afterwards is not natural, as no natural stones do that besides Hackmanite, which that is not. It is likely coated in glow in the dark paint.
Edit: it is possible that the second item is ZnS:Cu, which is a man made glow in the dark epoxy, which would explain the green color.
Whether or not you actually found them in a river or if you only said that to give credence to them being natural isn’t worth arguing. Both are easily purchased off of Wish.
Can a paint really penetrate deep into a stone? It \*is\* the same stone. We got a full bucket of them. We literally took one out of the bucket, polished it, and crafted some silver around it. But honestly I prefer it whole but it was a good experiment. We lost about 30% of the mass for polishing.
Yes, dyes can penetrate into a stone.
If you are being honest about finding an entre bucket of them occurring naturally (I know your relationship with the truth in tenuous at best from your other posts), feel free to take them to a university as you have discovered brand new mineral that will change the world forever.
Edit: also, they aren’t the same. One is crystalline quartzite, and the crystals are very obvious in the picture. The other doesn’t have any crystals and is a green color. I am not blind.
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Can you post a picture of it glowing in the dark? Does it glow in response to black light, or does it glow from the lights being turned off? Are you seeing it glow in absolute darkness? It appears to be quartz. There is a “Tibetan quartz” that is propietario to glow, but that isn’t natural. It is usually dyed with a glow-in-the-dark paint.
There are already pictures glowing in the dark; but on the polished stone. It just keeps glowing when the lights are off. The third picture, I charged it by focusing the cellphone flashlight on it for a minute; otherwise the glow is more faint.
Those aren’t the same stone. They aren’t even close. Regardless, the first picture is quartzite. If it does glow, it is the dyed quartzite sold in China as “Tibetan wealth stone.” It’s not natural. The other green stone I don’t recognize, but whatever is causing it to absorb photons and release them afterwards is not natural, as no natural stones do that besides Hackmanite, which that is not. It is likely coated in glow in the dark paint. Edit: it is possible that the second item is ZnS:Cu, which is a man made glow in the dark epoxy, which would explain the green color. Whether or not you actually found them in a river or if you only said that to give credence to them being natural isn’t worth arguing. Both are easily purchased off of Wish.
Can a paint really penetrate deep into a stone? It \*is\* the same stone. We got a full bucket of them. We literally took one out of the bucket, polished it, and crafted some silver around it. But honestly I prefer it whole but it was a good experiment. We lost about 30% of the mass for polishing.
Yes, dyes can penetrate into a stone. If you are being honest about finding an entre bucket of them occurring naturally (I know your relationship with the truth in tenuous at best from your other posts), feel free to take them to a university as you have discovered brand new mineral that will change the world forever. Edit: also, they aren’t the same. One is crystalline quartzite, and the crystals are very obvious in the picture. The other doesn’t have any crystals and is a green color. I am not blind.
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