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These rocks are usually found within obsidian or rhyolite lava flows. [2] Lavas low in feldspar minerals may produce a version known as snowflake obsidian . These cavities are believed to be caused by expanding gases in tuffs and rhyolitic lavas before solidification. [ 1 ]
Pig carved in snowflake obsidian, 10 centimeters (4 in) long. The markings are spherulites. Obsidian is also used for ornamental purposes and as a gemstone. [67] It presents a different appearance depending on how it is cut: in one direction it is jet black, while in another it is glistening gray.
Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.
Helenite, also known as Mount St. Helens obsidian, emerald obsidianite, and ruby obsidianite, is a glass made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helens and marketed as a gemstone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Helenite was first created accidentally after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 .
Most commonly, volcanic glass refers to obsidian, a rhyolitic glass with high silica (SiO 2) content. [7] Other types of volcanic glass include the following: Pumice, which is considered a glass because it has no crystal structure. Apache tears, a kind of nodular obsidian.
A mod for The Sith Lords, TSLRCM repurposes content extracted from the game's code like extra lines of dialogue or combat encounters which were unused by Obsidian, and made entire levels playable with fully integrated audio files and dialogue trees, such as a factory level for the HK-50 series of combat androids.
Macro photography of a natural snowflake. A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. [1] [2] [3] Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small crystal facets of the snowflakes scatter the sunlight between them. [4]
Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice, as opposed to the cubical lattice of conventional diamond.