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The second one looks like slightly dirty quartz to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QuartzUSGOV.jpg

The first, I have no idea on.

They are all the same stone

What are these "pits" on the stink bug, are they pits, or just the way the light is hitting the bug or just wrinkles in it's skin? Or perhaps they have gills?

I purchased the stone with a bunch of others at a garage sale, I posted it on a different website where I was told it can't be identified with the pictures I provided so I figured maybe someone here can ID it, here is a link with all the info on the rock including picture

http://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1844

someone showed a picture of a bug they drew using computer software they said it was a spider 1/2 inch with legs, round, the blue ring was neon, legs evenly spaced, so what do you think this could be

Velikovsky is a very controversial author.

yeah that's what I liked about his article he wasn't afraid to ask the questions no one else would

It has always been assumed all dinosaures such as Brontosaurus, triceratops and others like these were reptiles and they couldn't have been mammals because they lay eggs and no mammals were around back then. Well for a while now scientists have been debating this since they do have more mammal traits than reptiles and there are mammals today that do lay eggs. I found this article online by a Dr. Velikovsky and the article appeared in the KRONOS Journal in about 1978. R.Solàrion. I would quote it for you but instead here is the link for it.

My link

and it's not the only link I have found that have suggested these animals were mammal not reptile and it makes since to me, I think the only reason scientists always claimed them to reptiles is because mammals weren't suppose to be around then, but who are they to say when something is or isn't suppose to be around after all the aforementioned article says that there mammals with dinosaurs, and also that they lay eggs, as do the platypus and echidna

I have found loads of recipes to grow crystals to help me out in my study on crystal but one I couldn't find is citric acid crystals, can this be done? Citric acid is just a sour sugar so would do it like I would sugar crystals? If so those would taste good, sour crystals yum. I love rock candy but making it sour would be even better. And what other acid powders could grow crystals?

And off topic I have a chemistry set that is 50 years old, should I not use those chemicals for anything or do they not expire?

A 99¢ piezoelectric kitchen lighter wired to a spark plug will do it, with no complications.

this is the easiest safest way to do it but why not just light it. That's what I have always herd people did. Spray the hairspray or pour in the liqueur, which ever you use and then light it, but now that I think about that, that does sound a little unsafe, but that's how I always herd it done. Or do this, buy a roll of fuze, it's inexpensive, or make your own, soak a string in a solution of potassium nitrate, I don't know the exact recipe but I am sure you can find it online, I hope this helps and I hope you can get your cannon working

yeah I guess that is what I'm talking about but it only happens if you leave the battery in the device for too long inactive. Crystals start to form on it as, I guess, the acids leak out to cause it

Ok, I made the post about the possibility of growing a crystal from a corroded battery with no response so I will do the experiment myself but I need to know exactly what causes a battery to corrode. I have had batteries sit in something for ages and nothing happens while other times they corrode like crazy. What I always believed is that the batteries leak causing this is that true? How could I speed up corrosion of a battery? Once I figure out how to corrode a battery I can go from there to try to grow the crystals that form on the corroded battery.

When a battery corrodes little tiny crystals form on it. Is it possible to grow these crystals or grow a crystal from the battery? If so how do you do it?

that is cool, thanks, I will eventually try this

I am smart enough to know it's some sort of Lily, a relative of the Calla Lily I would say, but I have no idea what kind. The bloom is huge on it, probably over a foot long and a deep purple. The leaves are very large and very few, I think there are like five on it. The plant is in the yard of a vacant house that I do yard work for and the owner is long gone and I have no one else I can ask that knows plants.

"However, this isn't terribly interesting. The water-soluble salts have more or less a monopoly on all the lovely colors."

I think the organic dyestuffs makers would have something to say about that.

 

You can, if you are careful, crystallise naphthalene from methylated spirits.

It's white and dull, but it does crystallise well and it's not soluble in water. Aspirin and paracetamol are other options (a bit water soluble- but not very) and easier to get than naphthalene.

 

If you do try crystallising things from alcohol do remember that it's flammable.

first off what is methylated spirits and how hard is it to get a hold of and how do you crystalize aspirin?

What can you crystalize that isn't water soluble and how do I do it?

duh, I was a little confused i was thinking of microevolution, with macro I have never seen a series of fossils showing the change from one species to the next. Now getting a little away from science and into religion I believe that they didn't gradually evolve but instead God turned from one species to the next because a lot of them do share similar characteristics but still no transitional fossils and who's to say God didn't evolve things himself. And here is one a friend of mine has mentioned, the platypus, what is it, where did it come from?

that would be great, that is one my favorite fields

I never said Macroevolution isn't possible I just said there is no evidence of jumping from one species to the next, there is no link between man and ape, reptile and mammal and so on.

What are they? Are they really classified as a crystal species? Is there any way to make one that wont dissolve when wet? Do any crystal like the ones grow at home happen in nature besides salt?

evolution is just a theory with no proof to back it up, I am one who believes in creation but once again no real proof for that either, in fact I like to think they kind of go hand in hand but as for one animal changing species, there is no transitional fossils to prove this. If evolution were true there would be millions of fossils showing the transition from one animal to the next. Even Darwin said it isn't true, he stated evolution as an animal changing to it's environment, survival of the fittest I guess you could say, and a species changing such as the wolf to poodle transition, same species but different animal. Darwin said animals did not jump species and even said we were not monkeys or apes but instead a different species of ape, not evolved from the ape just a family member that gradually changed like the wolf to poodle.

I think that is just what this site needs, and then under it can be geology, meteorology, volcanology and anything else that you can think of

hey I'm new here,