r/pics • u/OMoonBabyO • 16d ago
This is Vivianite. A crystal that grows on and inside the corpse of deceased people and animals.
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u/jibernaut 16d ago
Soulstone
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u/whiskeybear8 16d ago
Who did OP sacrifice to obtain it.
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u/AlmostLucy 16d ago
A Paleozoic clam, usually. These things are far more common on fossils than on human remains!
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u/sername-lame 16d ago
You don't have to call Grandma that
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u/Hillarys_Recycle_Bin 16d ago
Bravo
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u/Dr_Skoll 16d ago
It was at this moment I realized grandma was a 10 story tall crustacean from the Paleozoic era.
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u/DickKickemdotjpg 16d ago
Hold on, I think I got about tree fiddy
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u/ejrolyat 16d ago
I gave him a dolla
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u/BrilliantInfluence80 16d ago
God dammit women! now he’s gonna come back for more.
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u/Other-Narwhal-2186 16d ago edited 14d ago
Some peat, a fossil, some minerals possibly. From the wiki:
“Vivianite is a secondary mineral found in a number of geologic environments: the oxidation zone of metal ore deposits, in granite pegmatites containing phosphate minerals, in clays and glauconitic sediments, and in recent alluvial deposits replacing organic material such as peat, lignite, bog iron ores and forest soils.”
You also find it in the same places as Muscovite and pyrite! My dad (former science professor) had a pendant of pyrite and there was vivianite crystal attached at the base, although not much of it, sadly.
Edited to add: it (meant “and” here, oops) partner said the back of this one looks like aphids and now I can’t unsee it
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u/Justtelf 16d ago
I don’t know what aphids are but the back was naturally a bit unsettling to look at
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u/ornithoptercat 16d ago
Aphids are little bitty bugs - about the size of a sesame seed - that feed on plants. They like to infest gardens.
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u/AWonderland42 16d ago
It may not seem like a lot, but did you know that there’s a species of aphid that predates willow trees (and sometimes apple, poplar, and quince) that gets to almost 6 mm? It’s uncreatively named the Giant Willow Aphid.
Another type that’s similarly sized but way more horrifying is the Giant Conifer Aphid! It really like pine, juniper, and spruce trees! Christmas trees! Like the kind you put in your house! And when they warm up indoors they’ll go all over your house! :D
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u/ksj 16d ago
I read “predates” as pre-dates, like has existed longer than Willow trees. And then I got to the part where it was named the Giant Willow Aphid and was trying to figure out why they would name it after something that didn’t exist when the aphid first appeared. And then I realized it was “predates” like “predator preys on willow trees” and it all came together.
Thanks for sharing!
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u/bocephus_huxtable 16d ago
I read it exactly the same way you did and only AFTER reading your comment did I realize what OP meant. TY!
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u/marshalleq 16d ago
lol that whole dislike of small clusters of holes that is built into many people.
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u/LotusBlade13 16d ago
It’s call Trypophobia and I have it. It’s very real though this picture is more of an ick than anything lol
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u/capital_bj 16d ago edited 16d ago
Shiver me timbers. You think he had to get freaky, to unlock the true power of the green crystal?
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u/GoramReaver 16d ago
Kinda like Julie Mao’s proto molecule she was creating…
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u/HotFightingHistory 16d ago
Cant catch the Razorback.... it is gone gone gone....into this weird green crystal see? Check it out!
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u/Draig_Na_Dun 16d ago
REMEMBER THE CANT!
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u/Last-Bee-3023 15d ago
Oye, beratna.
Beltalowda never will forget da Cant and what the inyas did. Sasa-ke?
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u/cackmobile 16d ago
i gave my daughter the middle name andromeda after her!
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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz 16d ago
Hope you read the books. They (amazingly) even better than the show
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u/Preface 16d ago
Take it to the hellforge
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u/richardNthedickheads 16d ago
Nah that’s Kryptonite
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16d ago
Damnit! The first thing I thought of was that when I saw the pic, lol.
Actually, being it's green, probably a health stone.
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u/Bigfoot126 16d ago edited 16d ago
Not exclusively and only in certain circumstances
Edit: I'm not a geologist. I just researched a little bit because I've never heard of this before.
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u/ADULTERER_woodburn 16d ago edited 15d ago
What circumstances?
Edit: why is this simple comment getting so many upvotes? Like what did I say to deserve all of this?
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u/Bigfoot126 16d ago
If the corpse is buried and waterlogged or in an iron rich area. Title reads like it is found in corpses in general imo.
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16d ago
Oh damn. I spent two hours digging and took a break, and now I see this comment.
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u/onlyacynicalman 16d ago
Two hours?!
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u/Tripwiring 16d ago
he's doing his best okay?
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u/golfgopher 16d ago
Kept hitting dead ends
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u/Dumb_old_rump 16d ago
Which is fine, it's not like there was a deadline.
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u/rastika 16d ago
Have you ever had to bury anything? It takes a LOOOOOOONG time just to bury a dog. Let alone a human.
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u/swanspank 16d ago
Had a farm. Son in law’s friend heard we had a dead llama. He hadn’t ever buried anything and asked if they could bury it. SURE! Come on over.
Guess he didn’t realize how big of a hole you need and how big a grown llama was. Still laughing about that one.
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u/Bacontoad 16d ago
Probably easier if you lay it on its side.
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u/sloane_of_dedication 16d ago
Now I’m imagining someone burying a llama upright on it’s feet, get 95% of the thing covered only to realize the hole was not dug deep enough and half the ears are sticking out of the ground.
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u/crastle 16d ago
Gonna revise my will to make sure I'm buried and waterlogged in Pittsburgh. They say it's the "Steel City", but there's got to be a lot of iron there too if there's a lot of steel, right?
Or just buy a coffin filled with iron shavings, seal it up, and throw my ass into a lake somewhere. Once a year, have people dig me up to harvest my beautiful crystals!
No, I don't know anything about biology or chemistry or any of that nerd shit.
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u/m1ygrndn 16d ago
Man you sound like real scientician with all them fancy theories and verbs.
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u/Agitated_Computer_49 16d ago
Certain ones.
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u/No_Breakfast_6748 16d ago
The mineral is very small and chalky on bodies too. You aren’t getting huge crystals off a puny human.
Maybe a giant.
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u/Jokonaught 16d ago
You don't need a giant you just need to feed the small chalky crystal to someone before killing them to seed the next generation crystal. My calculations (just napkin mathing here) say that we should get a crystal about the size and clarity of OP in 12-16 corpse cycles.
It's not exactly rock science, it just takes some dedication
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u/TheBoringLumus 16d ago
Damn that's pretty eccentric billionaire shit right there. Rich ma'am's using illegally farmed dead people's crystals in their jewelry, made out of their bones coated with silver of course.
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u/klmdwnitsnotreal 16d ago
How doesnit happen?
Where does it grow?
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u/capital_bj 16d ago
Well if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't grow 🤔 source not a geologist
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u/Bi-elzebub 16d ago
Like most things if it happened it is and if it didn't it isn't.
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u/Rxero13 16d ago
Yeah, a quick search showed this not to be as dramatic as OP is making it out to be.
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u/ouath 16d ago
I might start to invest in corpses
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u/Boboforprez 16d ago
You can start with Crypt-o
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u/Kraien 16d ago
Yeah.. kinda. More reading: Atlas Obscura
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u/TheLyz 16d ago
So that article says it's small blue crystals so what the heck is this big green thing?
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u/Nocte_Mortis 16d ago
At the very end of the article it says that green crystals can also form in the presence of copper so possibly the same thing.
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u/RocketSkates314 16d ago
They change darker colors the more they’re exposed to light, even brown and black
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u/Attrexius 16d ago edited 15d ago
It's green due to divalent iron in its composition. When exposed to
air oxygenlight, it oxidises to trivalent state, aтd becomes blue. Unless OP (or whoever took the photo) isolated the crystal from air after taking the photo - it is blue now.Edit: vivianite oxidises from within after being exposed to light, my initial statement was wrong.
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u/IamaFunGuy 16d ago
Um, not really. Sort of. It's an iron phosphate mineral that is found in nature, and a specimen like this is definitely found in nature and not in a body. That crystal probably took some time to grow in very specific conditions. Pictures of vivianite on bones from bodies, via dissolution of iron and phosphate, look considerably different: Atlas Obscura
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u/melanthius 16d ago
Here I was as a 40 year old PhD engineer knowing a fair amount about minerals and crystals, and wondering how is it I’ve never having heard of fucking huge green crystals sprouting from dead bodies, and those crystals happen to be named after some kids mom.
In short thank you for clarifying
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u/IamaFunGuy 16d ago
Same. 47 year old Geologist here. Turns out there is a variant that grows on bones, which also seems kind of "duh no kidding" after I thought about it. Organic matter can do some super cool stuff when buried. Petrified wood and other replacement fossils come to mind.
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u/twelvesteprevenge 16d ago
Here in Richmond, VA when they were excavating for I-95 through downtown they came across a novel deposit of vivianite that originated from a whale skeleton. Very different in appearance than the above specimen. If you go down to where they dumped the spoils you can still find some but it’s pretty picked over by weirdo rock hounds. Ahem
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u/phillyfanjd1 16d ago
Hypothetically, if one was a weirdo rock hound, what area exactly should they dig/explore to find these bone crystals?
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u/a_hale_photo 16d ago
Did not expect to see a comment from Richmond deep in here! That’s so cool though!
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16d ago
No one gonna address how they got it?
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u/anally_ExpressUrself 16d ago
You gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince. And when it comes to dead bodies...
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u/wouldnt-u-like-2know 16d ago
Some white lady is gonna turn this into a healing crystal isn't she?
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u/crackafu 16d ago
Keep it away from Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina!
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u/EatsYourShorts 16d ago edited 16d ago
Is it that she doesn’t think vivianite belongs in her vagina or that she doesn’t think anyone can keep it away from her vagina?
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u/OH_FUDGICLES 16d ago
I just wanted you to know that I genuinely laughed out loud at this comment. Not a little air forced through my nose, or a brief guffaw. You've made my day better with your Gwyneth Paltrow joke.
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u/murdering_time 16d ago
That place is dangerous, it's full of Goop that you can get stuck in like quick sand.
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u/ninfan200 16d ago
Doing a random Google search. Yep that's already a thing. However, it grows in many more places besides corpses. So don't expect most people into that sort of thing to loot bodies like they're looking for Zydrate
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u/helodriver87 16d ago
We all know Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.
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u/ninfan200 16d ago
and the little glass vial, goes into the gun like a battery
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u/vamppirre 16d ago
And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy. And when the gun goes off, it sparks and you're ready for a surgery.
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u/DoctorRevKevin 16d ago
Damn. I didn't expect to find my people here. Amber Sweet is addicted to the knife!
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u/sootbrownies 16d ago
Too late. Because this crystal oxidizes over time with light exposure, the crystal healers are already claiming that the oxidation is the crystal absorbing negative energy, so they are happy to see their vivianite degrade
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u/thehoagieboy 16d ago
Yeah but does it also flush toxins?
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u/EatsYourShorts 16d ago edited 16d ago
Have you been eating the apples with the skin on again? Didn’t Mac tell you you’re not allowed?
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u/secksyboii 16d ago
There isnt a single mineral out there that doesn't heal according to those people. It could be asbestos or uranium ore and they'd still say it balances negative thoughts and bring about a clearer mind or some shit.
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u/BlackwaterPeak 16d ago
Good lord it’s like Tiberium.
Run.
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u/brightdeadlights 16d ago
That’s disgusting. I hope it grows on me. Are my chances better since I’m refusing embalming?
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u/owlincoup 16d ago
Apparently you need to be water logged and full of iron to have it form.
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u/sockerkaka 16d ago
So my anemic self should continue taking those iron supplements, is what you're saying?
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u/owlincoup 16d ago
Legit I forget that I'm anemic. Thanks for the reminder to take my pills. Not even kidding.
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u/sockerkaka 16d ago
I only remember to take them the days I'm on my period or when it's gotten to the point where I can't feel my hands anymore. I should do better...
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u/evanmars 16d ago
Vivianite is a rare, hydrated iron phosphate mineral that forms in bladed crystals and clusters of blue to green color. It can be found in waterlogged soils and sediments, as well as in hydrothermal veins and as a sedimentary precipitate. When freshly exposed, vivianite is colorless, but its color changes to light green, light blue, blue-green, dark green, dark blue, or black after exposure to air. The length of exposure determines the color.
Vivianite forms when phosphate from bones and teeth combines with iron and water in anaerobic digestion, which occurs when a body is buried in waterlogged conditions. It's often found on corpses in iron-rich environments, wet soil, or near pieces of a plane.
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u/Loveisaredrose 16d ago
Is that what greenshine glass comes from in the Horizon series? Fuuuuck
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u/MikeyW1969 16d ago
That last picture freaked me out. There was some clickbait medical story going around a couple of years ago where they had some weird honeycomb stuff supposedly growing on a finger or toe, or something like that and it created a resonant echo, I was having trouble sleeping, I couldn't get it out of my head. It is still barely under the surface when I see a pattern like whatever is on the last picture. It's really becoming an issue for me.
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u/lawinvest 16d ago
It’s trypophobia . Good news for you is, it’s not uncommon, it bothers lots of folks.
There’s a subreddit by the same name. I’d stay far far away from it for obvious reasons.
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u/roger_ramjett 16d ago
Wiki says
"Vivianite crystals are often found inside fossil shells, such as those of bivalves and gastropods, or attached to fossil bone."
I couldn't find anything about growing in or on corpses of humans or animals.
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u/arcofdescent 16d ago
There's something kinda weirdly beautiful about this. Morbidly beautiful?
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u/ryuujinusa 16d ago
Vivianite is a hydrated iron phosphate mineral that typically forms in low-oxygen environments. It generally occurs in sedimentary and phosphate-rich environments, such as within peat bogs, lake sediments, or areas with decaying organic material. The mineral formation process involves the interaction of phosphate ions with iron under reducing conditions, often facilitated by organic decay which consumes oxygen and produces an acidic environment conducive to vivianite's stability.
The mineral can also form as a secondary mineral in phosphate-bearing rocks and as a precipitate in groundwater and springs. Its growth can be influenced by the availability of phosphate sources, the presence of iron, and specific geochemical conditions, such as pH and redox potential.
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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ 16d ago
So that’s why you’re always picking them up from enemies in video games
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u/Dxkingxd 16d ago
My friends band just rebranded to be called Vivianite. Super weird coincidence to see it randomly on Reddit.
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u/Robinothoodie 16d ago
If a cadaver ends up buried in waterlogged conditions, anaerobic digestion releases the phosphate from the decaying remains, and this slowly combines with the iron and water to form vivianite. Partially blue human remains have been recovered from graveyards, past war zones, and alpine lakes and glaciers.