Rhombic

Yet again disturbed by the postman, but this time he's delivering something that I've been waiting for. I'd bid on this very strange crystal formation on ebay and since it had to be shipped from the States its taken sometime for it to arrive in the UK, but it finally has.

The crystal I'm talking about is known as a rhombic bismuth crystal, and I got it from this fella, Ken, who seems to have made somewhat of a hobby of perfecting the art of making the crystals himself. They do not occur in nature very often, and when they do they are not such fine structures as the ones that can be made at home, but all the same, I'm pretty glad I've got one to add to my collection. You can see lots of pictures of the crystal in all its weirdness here.

So I spend a good part of the morning photographing the crystal so that Phil can have a gander whilst he is at work, poor thing needs something to cheer him up since he's still suffering quite badly with the cold that he has developed over the past couple of days. I'm still waiting for me to catch it, but so far so good :)

The rest of the day is given over to doing some work on a project I've got brewing at home, and the rest is history... (well actually just very boring...).

Posted by Abi on the October 17, 2005 9:41 PM

J H RICKETSON at October 22, 2005 4:20 AM DanS at October 24, 2005 7:03 PM