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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / What is the smallest colored structured known?

« on: 25/11/2022 05:02:29 »

Just a bit curious here, what are the smallest structured known to science that can display bold beautiful colors?

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Just how rare is true blue quartz?

« on: 25/11/2022 04:57:55 »

Well, thanks Zer0, there is a lot to this collection that cannot be easily explained or identified. I met a couple of retired scientists at a rock show that told me that it would appear that I've stumbled upon a scientific diamond/gold mine of specimens. You're so right about these stones being strange & weird, I've come across things like quartz with a hardness of 9.0, a hoard of small, elongated garnets and what appears to be a piece of jasper or jade that has somehow morphed into four different minerals. Then there's this blue quartz, even it's a mystery. What's really strange about this is that I did not have to dig for any of this stuff, it was just out in the open waiting to be found, the mummified insects, plants, the marine specimens and the stones, they appear to all be connected to one hell of a mystery.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Just how rare is true blue quartz?

« on: 18/11/2022 04:47:36 »

A few years ago, I took a piece of quartz and several other stones to a rock/mineral show to ask geologist questions about them. All of a sudden, several people were trying to trade or buy what I thought was just a simple piece of blue quartz that I had with me. I was going to trade it for a piece of quartz with gold in it, but a retired geologist talked me out of it. I was told that it appears that the blue in this quartz was not due to inclusions but was being produced by one of the elements that made up its composition which would make it, true blue quartz. So, how rare is true blue quartz?

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 18/11/2022 04:30:24 »

I thought that I'd give this one more try and contact a couple more scientist to see if maybe they could ID what I thought for sure were just a couple of diatoms. These were found inside of the same stone with all of the specimens shown above, I only found about 7 or 8 for each of these. Once again, they could not ID them nor explain why they look so well preserved. They were shocked to find out that these specimens were found inside of a stone in the desert with gastropods and bivalves that were 2.5-55 million years old. All of these are just a very small part of a very large mystery.
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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 27/10/2022 21:37:26 »

After contacting four scientist and showing over thirty different specimens I can say that I do now know something about four specimens that I did not know before so I'm grateful for that, every bit helps. Specimen #1 below, these are bryozoans, #2&3 are forams and # 4 is an ostracod. As for all of those strange, shaped specimens, it's still anyone guess. If I find out anything else new, I will come back and update.
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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 23/10/2022 21:24:54 »

Well, I contacted four scientists and so far, I've gotten back three I don't know and still waiting for one. When I first came across these things, I too thought that they were fragments of other fossils, but I just don't think that is true anymore. I also find it difficult to think that all of these things could somehow be completely new to science, but it is really starting to look like they just might be, I've been searching for over five years and so far, no answer as to what these things are.

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 20/10/2022 23:09:10 »

I will indeed let you know what I find out. 

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 19/10/2022 03:29:05 »

Yep, these things are super small, some are less than 0.50mm. I've contacted several scientists, and none had a clue as to what most of these things are. I'll just have to keep asking, maybe I'll give Canadian scientist a try too.

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 15/10/2022 22:19:21 »

Elphidium is the genus that the last three specimen belong to, there could be close to a hundred specimen that were found and only a small fraction can be identified by scientist. I keep telling myself that it's a matter of contacting the right person because there are just too many of these things for them to be completely unknown to science. They range in size from about 3mm to less than 0.50mm. If all of these specimens are indeed unknown to science, someone is going to have to come up with a lot of names. What you see in the photo below is about half of what was found. 

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Marine Science / Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 13/10/2022 04:11:30 »

I have contacted several marine biologists, micro paleontologists, geologist and a number of other scientists trying to ID
these specimens and no one seem to have a clue as to what they really are. There were a few specimens such as the last three in the photos that were identified as foraminifera. These were found inside of sandstone boulders that were littered with some bivalves and gastropods that scientist say are between 2.5-55 million years old. The boulders were picked up from the desert of southern California. There were just way too many of these things found for them to be unknown to science. Does anybody have a clue as to what these things are?
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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 04/04/2022 05:18:41 »

These bubbles are quite black, so they have a significant component that is not gas[/qu
The bubbles look black when they are lit from below and when lit from above they look transparent and sometimes white. This pyrite is very strange, it seems to have a thing for spheres, I have seen spherical structures grow out of the acid solution and there are even tiny spheres embedded in some of the pyrite crystal, to date no can explain any of this. There are over 27 different elements detected in this pyrite, I was curious as to which one might be creating these heavy bubbles.

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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 03/04/2022 04:19:14 »

You can upload it to Youtube and just post the link here.

Okay, I uploaded the video to YouTube but the link for some reason isn't working for me, so just go to the YouTube site and in the search box type: Strange bubbles or fragment to bubbles and that should bring up the videos.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: What kind of rock?

« on: 01/04/2022 04:02:58 »

That's a neat find, I'm no geologist so I can't say for sure what it is, but the top brown part appears to be typical sedimentary stone, that dark area I'm not sure about but it does look cool, the sparkles are most likely made by mica.

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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 01/04/2022 03:54:38 »

Did you see the bubbles form somewhere above the bottom before they fall down to the bottom?

I had put a small fragment of pyrite (about 3mm) in a small plastic container and put enough acid to cover it, as I watched it under the microscope, I could see bubbles form at the top of the fragment and slowly drift to the bottom of the solution. In some of the test I would crush the fragments and place a gram or so on a slide and put a couple drops of acid and when I looked at it, there would be several bubbles just sitting on the bottom. I do have a video of the fragment test, but I think the file is too large to upload on here. I was curious about this because, I bought a piece of normal pyrite and when I do the same test I get a foamy blob like substance and not bubbles like this.

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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 31/03/2022 05:36:04 »

Separation of sulphide ores by attaching them to bubbles has a long history

Hmm, can froth flotation be performed on a microscope slide using just a couple drops of acid?

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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 30/03/2022 05:14:25 »

I did a number of acid test, the end results were almost always something different than the last, the one thing that was consistent were the bubbles and that's why I was curious as to what element might be producing the bubbles. No one can say why, but this pyrite has a thing for sphere shapes. Here are some photos of the bubbles in question.
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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 29/03/2022 05:49:15 »

What sort of acid?

The acid used was muriatic acid and stone is pyrite. I have photos of some of the acid solutions with scores of the bubbles showing. I'll see if I can dig up a few and post them.

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Chemistry / What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 28/03/2022 05:21:58 »

I was doing some acid testing on a strange piece of pyrite, and I noticed that a lot of bubbles were sitting in the bottom of the solution. I put a fragment in some acid and watched it under a microscope, on one side a bubble would come out, rise to the top and pop and on the other side a bubble would form and drop to the bottom. Just a bit curious as to what element would produce a heavy gas bubble like this.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Was Mars once a oxygen rich planet?

« on: 23/08/2021 03:47:18 »

Thanks for all the great answers, have a very good picture of what may have taken place on Mars now.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Was Mars once a oxygen rich planet?

« on: 21/08/2021 05:11:03 »

I read that Mars gets its red color from all of the iron oxide that covers it. I have also read that when iron oxide lacks oxygen it shows up as a greenish color and that it only turns red when in the present of oxygen. Is the iron oxide on Mars red because it was once rich with oxygen or is there another process that can make iron oxide red without the presents of oxygen?