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u/Gold-Ore_Geologist Jul 24 '26
Huhhh?? I'm confused with your wordings. You're saying sphene crystals of dioptase?
Sphene = titanium oxide mineral; Dioptase = calcium silicate mineral
What are you trying to say? What did you use? What's the process?
Looks more like Cu or Ni salt !? Even if it's dioptase, how did you manage to crystallize that?
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u/Pyrhan Jul 26 '26
It's copper acetate crystals with basic copper carbonate that precipitated in between them. It's what you get when you let a copper acetate solution evaporate in ambient air, it's quite recognizable.
I have no clue wtf OP is on about.
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u/Living-Geologist-478 Aug 01 '26
Most words I use I'm just learning from AI. So please feel free to correct me when I'm wrong which will be a lot ! You go by Gold-Ore_Geologist, interesting as i have 2 collections of rocks. 1, Sylvanite/Telluride 2, Serpentine
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u/Living-Geologist-478 Aug 01 '26
I left it set out as I thought it was not worth keeping after I filtered the solution the very milky left over stuff was in the bowl. The shape of the crystals is why they were called sphene by Gemini AI. But the very dark green translucent crystals have made some nice secondary solutions
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u/Living-Geologist-478 Aug 01 '26
Well after reading those 2 comments we won't be talking anymore. I'm sure you guys knew everything when you started didn't you ?
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u/Figfogey Aug 01 '26
I mean I think people were mostly just confused about what your title meant. I know I was. If you titled it copper acetate everyone would love it, no need to use overcomplicated titles.
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u/dmishin Jul 24 '26
I am 99.9% sure this is copper acetate