#osumilite

Some softer bois! Descriptions under the cut!

Minerals: Osumilite

A rare potassium-sodium-iron-magnesium-aluminum silicate mineral, osumilite has the long chemical formula of (K,Na)(Fe2+,Mg)2(Al,Fe3+)3(Si,Al)12O30. It crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system, and is known as a cyclosilicate.

Osumilite has an unusual double ring structure, with the formula Si12O30 (most silicate rings have the formula (T6O18)-12, where T is a tetrahedrally coordinated cation). In the double ring structure, however, the normal rings share six oxygen atoms, one from each tetrahedron. 

It is usually darker in color, often brown, dark blue, or black, and has a Mohs hardness of 5 to 6. Its name comes from its location of discovery, in volcanic rocks near Osumi, Japan. It has since been found elsewhere, including Oregon in the United States, Italy, and Germany.

For more in depth information about osumilite, check out what mindat.org, webmineral.com, and handbookofmineralogy.org have to say about it. 

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@gemsonaresources

@shinydoduo and I came up with this post-fuse-a-palooza thing where we draw each other’s versions of fusions of our OCs.

@gemsonaresources

This is Charoite. My entry for fuse-a-palooza.

She is a fusion of my OC, Amber( from @orange-topaz) and @shinydoduo‘s OC, Osumilite.

Any fusion Amber is a part of can rearrange their pieces to resemble an earth vehicle. Charoite is no exception. She can turn into an excavator.

Her weapon is an pneumatic hammer with two modes:

The normal mode can drill through rock and can shake up a whole battlefield in a matter of minutes.

@gemsonaresources, @shinydoduo

Alright @gemsonaresources ’s Fuse-a-palooza! I finally finished my entry, despite university being a pain. This is Moss Agate, the fusion between my Osumilite and @dinomodtriad ’s Amber! Since Amber had some unfortunate cracks filled in with Technetium, they, and their fusions, are a bit of a transformer! So I had to figured out how a machine form would look too, and decided that a building crew’s handy vehicle would have to be a crane with a wrecking ball! A spiky wrecking ball because of Osumilite’s kanabo, and it has quite the punch from Amber’s machine build.

✰ Stage-lit Song ✰

For this prompt I decided I would try and incorporate Osumilite into the Gem Karaoke short. I don’t normally do screen cap inserts but I wanted to see how well Osumilite’s design could hold up against the actual show. I think I did pretty well! Fooled my mom at least XD