Plunkett
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Antozonite on eBay
As many of you know, antozonite is a radioactive fluorite mineral and one of the only places on Earth where elemental fluorine occurs naturally. In
my experience it does not come up for sale often, so I thought I would share this eBay listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTOZONITE-CHARBONNIER-VAR-FRANCE/2...
[Edited on 4-1-2019 by Plunkett]
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MrHomeScientist
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Awesome! I was lucky enough to find a sample for sale a while back. Beautiful purple cubes.
I also read that when the crystals are broken, a smell of ozone can be detected (from F reacting with O). I would love to try this, but my sample is
precious and small!
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diddi
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yes. i have a couple of pieces also. it is my poor mans fluorine sample in my elements display
Beginning construction of periodic table display
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draculic acid69
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Just googled it, pretty cool looking crystals.awesome purple cubes would make awesome dice or gemstones.too bad it's radioactive.im guessing that s
why it's not used in jewellery.
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