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| − | === Moon rocks => rutile | + | === Moon rocks => rutile, anatase, brookite, tristarite, hongquiite === |
If you so happen to be on the moon there is a good chance that your rock contains a lot of [[Titanium]] <br> | If you so happen to be on the moon there is a good chance that your rock contains a lot of [[Titanium]] <br> | ||
This element is especially useful for making structural [[gemstone like compounds]]. <br> | This element is especially useful for making structural [[gemstone like compounds]]. <br> | ||
| − | You can make the oxidic gemstones: Rutile Anatase | + | You can make the oxidic gemstones: |
| − | More "[[synthetic moon titanium gemstomes]]" are: titanium phosphide, titanium silicide | + | * Rutile (TiO<sub>2</sub>) |
| − | since these partner elements are quite non-volative and likely still on the moon in quantities. | + | * Anatase (TiO<sub>2</sub>) |
| + | * Brookite (TiO<sub>2</sub>) | ||
| + | * hongquiite (TiO) | ||
| + | * tristarite (Ti<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) <br> | ||
| + | More "[[synthetic moon titanium gemstomes]]" are: | ||
| + | * titanium phosphide (TiP), | ||
| + | * titanium silicide (many forms) | ||
| + | * titanium diboride (TiB<sub>2</sub> | ||
| + | since these partner elements are quite non-volative <br> | ||
| + | and likely still on the moon in quantities. | ||
Not to worry here on earth there is plenty of titanium too. Just not that much. <br> | Not to worry here on earth there is plenty of titanium too. Just not that much. <br> | ||
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Titanium combing in a pure way with other elements rarely happens in nature. <br> | Titanium combing in a pure way with other elements rarely happens in nature. <br> | ||
So these come without pretty mineral names. <br> | So these come without pretty mineral names. <br> | ||
| − | The golden titanium nitride is pretty well known. <br> | + | * The golden titanium nitride (TiN) is pretty well known. <br> |
| − | Titanium carbide is also an excellent material. | + | * Titanium carbide (TiC) is also an excellent material. |
=== Rocks dunes and lakes on Saturns moon Titan => diamond and lonsdaleite=== | === Rocks dunes and lakes on Saturns moon Titan => diamond and lonsdaleite=== | ||
Revision as of 17:36, 1 June 2021
This page shall answer:
Given a gem-gum factory what could you make from the material in a stone
(or inorganic dirt) that you randomly pick up from the ground.
Contents
Granite => quartz and stishovite
Most stones are to a high degree silicates. One especially common one is granite.
From this you can make all sorts of polymorphs of SiO2
Including quartz and stishovite.
Chalk-stone => calcite and aragonite
Many stones (entire mountain ranges) are metamorphized ancient sediments from ea life.
One especially common one is microcrystalline chalk stone.
From this you can make all sorts of polymorphs of CaCO3
Including: Calcite (aka bifringent calc-spar), Aragonite
Clay => sapphire
Clays typically contain quite a bit of aluminum dioxide
From this you can make (among other things) Sapphire: Al2O3
Iron ore => wüstite, hematite, and magnetide
Pick up a some random brownish looking stone an chances are good there's iron inside.
With this you can make wüstite, hematite, and magnetite.
Iron (unlike titanium) unfortunately does not like to make
gemstones with super awesome mechanical and thermal properties.
Salt => periclase
There are plenty of places to find magnesium
With that one can make periclase
Rocks in space
Moon rocks => rutile, anatase, brookite, tristarite, hongquiite
If you so happen to be on the moon there is a good chance that your rock contains a lot of Titanium
This element is especially useful for making structural gemstone like compounds.
You can make the oxidic gemstones:
- Rutile (TiO2)
- Anatase (TiO2)
- Brookite (TiO2)
- hongquiite (TiO)
- tristarite (Ti2O3)
More "synthetic moon titanium gemstomes" are:
- titanium phosphide (TiP),
- titanium silicide (many forms)
- titanium diboride (TiB2
since these partner elements are quite non-volative
and likely still on the moon in quantities.
Not to worry here on earth there is plenty of titanium too. Just not that much.
Beside the oxidic titanium gemstones there are plenty excellent others
Titanium combing in a pure way with other elements rarely happens in nature.
So these come without pretty mineral names.
- The golden titanium nitride (TiN) is pretty well known.
- Titanium carbide (TiC) is also an excellent material.
Rocks dunes and lakes on Saturns moon Titan => diamond and lonsdaleite
On Saturns moon Titan your rock will most likely be water ice.
That is not too useful as structural building material.
Go to the tholine dunes and methane lakes instead.
All the stuff there is probably mostly organic volatile elements.
Hopefully not too sludge like (we will see when amazing the dragonfly mission will arrive)
So the products of titaninan gem-gum tech will likely be combustible if
heated enough in the presence of for that purpose synthesized oxygen.
See: Diamondoid waste incineration
Related
- Rock digestion chamber
- Atomically precise disassembly
- Diamondoid waste incineration – does not work for pretty much all stones except diamond and carbon notride
- Passivation layer minerals
- Gemstone like compounds with high potential
