Aimless In Space
--J.B.S. Haldane--
Rachael - Detroit - WSU
Mad Scientist-in-Training
Clastrophysicist (Classics/Astronomy/Physics)
This is my super spectacular (mostly) space blog!! I also enjoy math, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, jellyfish, Detroit, Futurama, and cats.
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Taken by photographer Alison Jackson in 2008. Her quote: ‘I was shooting Benedict Cumberbatch the star...
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“rosé colored glasses.” (x)
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CAT OWLS
Cobalt Chloride (Pink), Chrome Alum (Purple), Copper Nitrate (Blue), Copper Sulfate (Blue), Copper Acetate (Blue), Nickel Sulfate (Green), Potassium Chromate (Yellow), Cerium Sulfate (Yellow), Potassium Dichromate (Orange), Sodium Dichromate (Orange)
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SCIENCE!!! Here are some buttons for all you science lovers. I was a bio major in college and I’m still a big science geek. ;) I tried to get creative with the hearts, it was difficult but fun.
The biology button has a strand of DNA for the “I” a diagram of blood flow in the heart, and paramecium spelling out “biology”.
The chemistry one is pretty self explanatory, I used the chemical symbols to spell “love” (well, luv anyway).
The formula under the graph on the math button actually will make that heart shape on graph. I got the formula from here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartCurve.html
The physics button has the equation equation for the gravitational force between two objects (attraction, get it?)
The biochemistry button has an oxytocin molecule, the “love hormone”.
For the astronomy one I drew the heart nebula, which is a real nebula located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. Space stuff is really hard to draw. D:
Send me a note if you’d like to buy one. :)
Rockyard Botryoidal Geode
Contains:
Agate (FL Blue >SW)
Chalcedony (FL Green >SW)
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Native tellurium crystal on sylvanite. Picture width 2 mm.
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Vanadium is not found in the native state, but is present in minerals such as vanadinite, Pb5(VO4)3Cl.
Olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4
Though Olivine is one of the most common minerals on Earth, good specimens and large crystals are rare and often sought after. This mineral is an igneous rock formed within the Earth’s mantle but is also commonly found in the asteroid belt and on Mars.
If you want to scientifically impress your friends, you can tell them what the color of fireworks really mean.
Here’s the complete list of the chemical cocktails that go into different fireworks, courtesy of The Works Museum in Bloomington, Minnesota:
- Electric White:White-hot metal flakes
- Orange:Calcium salts
- Bright Red:Strontium Carbonate
- Turquoise:Copper Chloride
- Purple:Strontium (red) & Copper (blue)
- Silver Sparkle:Burning Aluminum or Magnesium flakes
- Green:Barium Chloride
- Gold:Glowing Iron or Charcoal powder
- Yellow:Sodium Chloride
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I miss the beautiful simplicity of just naming acids.
(Thanks for the submission, practicaldramatical!)
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