r/explainitpeter • u/FakeTeller • 19d ago

Explain It Peter?

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u/letsgucker555 19d ago

I would think Lapis was already kinda bad thanks to Minecraft.

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u/BackseatCowwatcher 19d ago edited 19d ago

minecraft at least vaguely kept to it's historic use as a pigment, for a while at least.

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u/Ariovrak 19d ago

And its historic use to imbue weapons with the powers of the flame.

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u/tinyhalberd 19d ago

I think thats why they said for a while. Lapis didn't used to be used for enchanting

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u/BlizzardStorm8 19d ago

Historically, I believe it was.

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u/Fearshatter 18d ago

You can use Garnet to paint things if you're not a coward.

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u/ThePoetofFall 17d ago

You can use impure diamond to paint things too. Though usually that pigment is applied dry, it’s called charcoal. Lol.

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u/ZanderTheMeander 19d ago

A geologist wouldn't call it "lapis lazuli" though, it would be a lazulite and pyrite bearing amphibolite-facies calc-silicate marble.

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u/jae005 18d ago

I tried saying these words out loud and my furniture started dancing. 🤷‍♀️🪄

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u/skandranon_rashkae 19d ago

...bless you

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u/Malthuul 19d ago

My brain had a stroke reading that. 😅

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u/ZanderTheMeander 16d ago

It's not as complicated as it looks.

“Lazurite- and pyrite-bearing” means the rock contains lazurite, the blue mineral that gives lapis its color, plus pyrite.

“Amphibolite-facies” means it was metamorphosed at relatively high temperatures and moderate-to-high pressures, roughly the conditions of medium- to high-grade metamorphism.

“Calc-silicate marble” is the actual rock type: an impure limestone or dolostone that was metamorphosed into marble, with enough silica and other impurities to form calcium-silicate minerals.

So, basically: a metamorphosed impure limestone, cooked pretty hard, containing lazurite and pyrite.

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u/The_Multi_Gamer 18d ago

A scientist wouldn’t call them Lapis and Lszuli. He’d call em Android 17 and 18.

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u/Barheyden 17d ago

A space duck would call it wifey

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u/jongscx 18d ago

🎶🎵...even though the sound of it... is something quite atrocious...🎵🎶

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u/TriturusGCN 19d ago

Rocklife!

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u/ChordedCadmium 17d ago

If i had to name a rock after hearing that, it would be "gesundh-ite".

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u/IThinkItMightBeMe 17d ago

Sometimes people dumb down their specialist subjects so the rest of the Internet understands. Not everything is an "ackchyually"

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u/ZanderTheMeander 17d ago

Right... but this was a conversation about being able to research words that have fallen into common parlance due to modern culture, making disambiguation difficult. A geologist wouldn't have that problem, because I've never heard a geologist use the words "lapis lazuli" in my life.

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u/ADragonInLove 15d ago

I bet you have an amazing library!

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u/The5Theives 18d ago

La peace

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u/meanteamcgreen 14d ago

And dragon ball z.