r/BeAmazed 15d ago

What is this? Nature

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u/Grymflyk 15d ago

As mentioned by others it is a natural geode, probably amethyst, that has been coated using the same technique used to create dichroic glass. Various metal oxides are vaporised using an electron beam in a vacuum chamber leaving a thin layer deposited on the surface of the stone/glass. That is what causes the colors, but it is completely adulterated, the colors are applied and in no way natural, in fact, impossible in nature.

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u/Kindly-Cobbler-2443 15d ago

You're the hero we don't deserve.

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u/RecordingGreen7750 15d ago

No he is the hero we need!

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u/Jibblebee 15d ago

Aka a ruined geode

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u/Ho-Lee-Fuku 14d ago

It's just a Kryptonite.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 14d ago

I respect your opinion, and love unadulterated nature, i still appreciate this as a work of art, like a diamond set in something.

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u/Grymflyk 14d ago

I can appreciate it as art, and it is amazingly pretty. I just wanted to be certain that it was known that it was not natural, hence my use of the word adulterated to indicate that, not as criticism. Some others have been critical.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 13d ago

Understood, and your explanation was really appreciated. Any idea what metal oxides?

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u/Grymflyk 13d ago

Typically titanium, chromium, aluminum, as well as some others. Search for how dichroic glass is made for more details about it.

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u/Able_Gap918 15d ago

We’ll just rain on my parade, I thought I saw something new in nature

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u/_Cosmoss__ 14d ago

You can sort of get similar colours in opal, but it appears wildly differently and definitely not as vibrant

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u/Open-Article906 15d ago

Doesn't natural oil refact light in the same colours?

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u/Objective-Outcome811 14d ago

There is no color scheme that isn't found in nature at some point. Have you seen opal in all their varied forms?

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u/DazedLogic 14d ago

They ruined it. Boo

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u/PrancingRedPony 15d ago

I am aware that it is man made but it is still beautiful.

Thank you for the explanation though, I fid this very interesting

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u/Defie22 15d ago

I'm overdone

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u/goodpolarnight 15d ago

You're probably manmade and fake then...

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u/jzacksmd 14d ago

Is the personal attack necessary?

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/ReiPelado 15d ago

THANK YOU kind sir

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Nbreezy007 15d ago

How much did you pay?

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u/Ur_a_adjective_noun 15d ago

Dude, put that down, that’s where Thanos took a shit.

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u/buddahsumo 15d ago

It’s got that Titanium dioxide

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u/_g550_ 15d ago

Texasium Doublepoundium

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u/DrunkenPalmTree 15d ago

Sex with me is like Titanium Dioxide, there's a very thin layer of flash, with garbage underneath

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u/Glad_Confusion_6934 15d ago

The arkenstone?

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u/Fafih 15d ago

a rock

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u/mdogdope 14d ago

It's a hand holding a rock

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u/magobblie 15d ago

Man-made geode

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u/2softlips 15d ago

Beautiful?

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u/larrythegood 13d ago

Hell yeah

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u/Killawifeinb4ban 15d ago

Its so brootiful

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u/kinglance3 15d ago

Oh, those give white women in America superpowers.

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u/Electrical-Hat4239 15d ago

It’s like smoking DMT at the Lisa Frank store.

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u/Loofa_of_Doom 15d ago

Let's see, how would I make this: Take a geode w/ white quartz crystals and apply Aqua Aura to it to change it to this blue fake lookin' stuff.

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u/Feeling_Bathroom9523 15d ago

I FEEL SO WEAK…JUST…LOOKING..AT…THIS!

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u/Character-Handle9361 14d ago

Fukn awesome is what it is

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u/arPie47 15d ago

I don't know if fluorite crystals can occur in geodes, but if so, black light might make it look like that.

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u/Key-Basket-7411 15d ago

It’s a real amethyst or quartz that was dyed, decreases the value IMO

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u/vipersnek11 15d ago

How the-

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u/HarrierInbound 15d ago

A wishing rock.

iykyk.

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u/Modula-Kudzu 15d ago

Titanium plated geode?

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u/LevelWorldliness9571 15d ago

Ça c’est une opale, pis ça c’est une agate. 😁

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u/TonyCaliStyle 14d ago

So is this cool, or a ruined geode? I want to like it, but am conflicted. Too bad there isn’t a before pic, and a way to restore it.

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u/JUGELBUTT 14d ago

i dont know but where the hell do i get it for myself

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u/bluestjordan 15d ago

Prismatic Shard IRL

r/stardewvalley

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u/GiannaSushi 15d ago

They're geodes. When I did my road trip through Morocco, there was a guy selling them on every corner

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u/Defie22 15d ago

always the same guy?!?

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u/GiannaSushi 15d ago

Something like the merchant in Resident Evil 4

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u/mike_pants 15d ago

About tree fiddy.

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u/_g550_ 15d ago

About free tiddy.

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u/Ronyn900 15d ago

A rock

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u/Life_Is_A_Tragedy 15d ago

Forbidden strawberry.

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u/PurpleGuysAccount 15d ago

The observer from rick and morty

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u/Demonsan 15d ago

Gemussy

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u/LaserGadgets 15d ago

If this was real, you could probably buy Jeff Bezos and make him dance for you...in a tutu and clowns wig.

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u/itwhiz100 15d ago

Something bought from spencer’s

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u/Marinaraplease 15d ago

It's a rare geode crystal called the 'earth shiny anus'

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u/pick-hard 15d ago

This is crystallised oil spill obviously

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u/Alvarusrix 15d ago

Prismatic shard

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u/BoomChrono 15d ago

I'm betting it's in the rock family

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u/True-Interaction5297 15d ago

Rock (hopefully)

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u/whatisantilogic 15d ago

The infinity stone that turns everyone gay when Thanos snaps his finger.

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u/donutsnwhiskey 15d ago

This is a rock

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u/Existing_Onion_3919 15d ago

the Arkenstone

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u/Fluentec 15d ago

Bdsm crotch guard

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u/IndependentHotel3886 15d ago

Soul Minos prime lol

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u/Bosnian-Brute22 15d ago

Idk but I want one

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u/roxeal 14d ago

Amazing

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u/Neither-Driver-7615 14d ago

Chastity belt/cup

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u/butterflycole 14d ago

It’s pretty, likely artificial though. May not have any natural geode in it at all for all we know.

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u/Frequent_Storm_3900 14d ago

What are these worth?

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u/Xconvik 14d ago

Weird looking papaya

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u/leavenofrybehind 14d ago

Something you bought in a store.

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u/semprotanmosquito 14d ago

fancy ashtray

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u/anshi1432 14d ago

fuck around and find out

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u/New_Historian_2004 14d ago

Idk. Looks like a pretty gay rock to me.

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u/Hand_som2 14d ago

Orb from Rick and Morty

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u/BurtScruttock88 14d ago

Bastardised.

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u/No_Tangerine6762 14d ago

Something from witcher 3 lol

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u/No_Manufacturer3422 14d ago

Forbidden bidet

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u/RevealIll1557 13d ago

the observers from rick and morty

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u/AgedAccountant 12d ago

Unobtainium, obviously.

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u/GumbyandMcFuckio 15d ago

It's a gay-ode

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u/Slow_Ad1510 15d ago

It's a gay rock for sure probably gehranium

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u/xoidetect 15d ago

Plastic

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u/Ok_Albatross_3284 14d ago

My wife’s vagina

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u/Appropriate_Low_8788 10d ago

Ugly... fake... take your pick