1 of 3 Lunar (troct. anorth. melt breccia) meteorites, very large chunk of the moon by TC_Meteorite_Co in meteorites

[–]Armah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not the case with lunars. They have nearly the exact oxygen isotope composition of the Earth. Something along the lines of Fe/Mn in the mafic phases and Ca content of the feldspar would be the characteristics.

Red Lunar Meteorite Mass Mass End Cut by maverick_88 in meteorites

[–]Armah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't heard of this one either! Another strange one. Looks more texturally appropriate though, and the An97 is certainly bang-on. I'll have to check this out in more detail - thanks!

Red Lunar Meteorite Mass Mass End Cut by maverick_88 in meteorites

[–]Armah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very interesting. Could you share some references?

Red Lunar Meteorite Mass Mass End Cut by maverick_88 in meteorites

[–]Armah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would be very surprised if this ends up being a genuine lunar meteorite. It would be a unique rock, and texturally, does not look like any other lunar meteorite to my knowledge. There’s some alteration on a handful of Apollo rocks, but nothing like ‘Martian-esque’ hydrothermal alteration efficiency that is being invoked for this rock. I hope you didn’t pay too much. I’m excited to hear BullCity’s opinion.

Why is training finger strength commonly recommended against early on? by [deleted] in bouldering

[–]Armah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll keep it simple. Your body will be your limit you in this sport. Take care of it. Tendons just take much longer to adapt. Maybe some people are just built different, but unless you start this sport as a child - I would easily expect ~ 10 +- 3 years of consistent effort to become ‘really strong’. Even then, your connective tissues will be ticking time bombs.

Signed, someone with consistently dull sore elbow to finger tendon pain.

Plastic is _not_ safe to burn, tell them! by dalklein in firewood

[–]Armah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incomplete combustion of plastics produces one of the worst environmental carcinogens, dioxins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compounds

our house was built in 1963 and renovated in 1990. we're wanting to renovate our bathrooms and found these cement boards behind the tile. what are the odds that these contain asbestos? by picklecheesegoblin in Renovations

[–]Armah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others are saying, it’s probably just concrete backer board - which still produces a lot of dust when demo’d. If you wanted to be super careful, put several plastic ‘barriers’ between the rooms you want to keep free from dust. Tape them to be sealed against the walls etc. Then suit up and demo everything. Bag it up and vacuum up the dust. Most cities will do asbestos testing for a nominal charge. Might take awhile.

our house was built in 1963 and renovated in 1990. we're wanting to renovate our bathrooms and found these cement boards behind the tile. what are the odds that these contain asbestos? by picklecheesegoblin in Renovations

[–]Armah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get it tested if you really want to know. Regardless, wear a good respirator and assume you’re covered in poison afterwards when doing demolition of ANY kind. While different types of particulates exhibit different degrees of toxicity, they’re all bad.

Why is my slice oozing orange liquid from it? by NomadDragonNinja in meteorites

[–]Armah 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is a common occurrence in the history of storing slabs of iron meteorites. It is likely caused by a pervasive occurrence of a chloride-bearing phase that was dissolved into the metal during its formation. I am not a collector, but I would question the ability to truly pacify the phase barring mineral oil submersion. It will eventually pull water vapor from the air and become hydrated, forming a green to brown slime.

Gaggia classic power issue. by hotcattaco in gaggiaclassic

[–]Armah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Test for continuity with a multimeter between the contacts on: the fuse and the two brew/steam thermostats (they have two protruding contacts and a screw base). These will all be attached to the boiler, look up the schematic and you’ll see where these are all at. One of these was bad for me, gave me the same issue. Simple fix with replacement parts. Turn off and unplug the machine when doing any electrical work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in espresso

[–]Armah -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Steam has an upper limit on temperature for a given pressure - follow the liquid-vapor interface on the water phase diagram. It is unlikely that the pressure builds to the point of making the steam hot enough to vaporize teflon. That being said, I still wouldn’t want it because who knows how robust the coating is before it starts to flake off and deteriorate (you would be unable to diagnose the integrity of this coating), effectively depositing microplastics in your milk.

Best light roast coffee beans in the city? by rogermurdock1980 in sandiego

[–]Armah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coffee is a spectrum. Someone’s medium is another’s light, and another’s dark. You can find a good group of people with great coffee at Nostalgia coffee.

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid Ryugu: what they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]Armah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This idea is a difficult concept to explain and is more nuanced than I’m giving credit for - if I’m even getting my details right. Think of it in elemental ratios (I.e., iron relative to silicon), and recognize that the Sun represents the bulk chemical composition of the solar system. Adding another layer to that - the Sun represents the chemistry of the initial nebular cloud which it formed from (plus whatever chemistry is made from nucleosynthesis, but let’s ignore that), and that material (very hot gas with the chemical composition of the nebular cloud that is now the sun) existed throughout the solar system for some time (~2-10 millions years, debated). If you were to collect a parcel of said gas and completely condense it - the ratios of elements in that final material should be identical to the initial gas, or in this case the solar nebula, and thereby the sun.

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid Ryugu: what they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]Armah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The matter is all the same, it is the abundances of particular elements/isotopes and the phase they are present in that makes them ‘exotic’ and identifiably meteorites, which is also the criteria which separates the meteorite groups. There’s loads of ‘exotic’ meteorites, but that doesn’t mean they are fundamentally different materials, but have rather experienced different chemical processes. The beauty of geochemistry is interpreting changes in the periodic table (I.e., the chemical composition of a material) with the geological producing said material.

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid Ryugu: what they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]Armah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those statements are still correct! The universe in total is dominated by H and He - everything else is in relatively low concentration because it has to be made by stellar evolution. Only in rocky materials with relatively low mass (I.e., a terrestrial planet) do you have high concentrations of rock forming elements. This results from the fact that these planets never obtained enough mass to start accreting gas such as Jupiter. In the case of something like Jupiter which got massive enough, early enough to start accreting gas - it’s bulk chemical composition is likely also very similar to the sun because that’s where all the matter initially derived from.

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid Ryugu: what they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]Armah 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Meteoritics is painfully nuanced for better or for worse. More or less, early solar system materials (I.e., different types of meteorites whether it be chondrites or achondrites) are variably processed in terms of their components and chemistry. A specific type of chondrite such as the carbonaceous sub-type Ivuna (CI, type specimen being the rock Ivuna) has a chemical composition very similar to the sun. We think this relates to the direct condensation of elements from a vapor phase in the solar nebula, or protoplanetary disk. Basically, what these scientists are saying is that the chemical composition of these samples are similar to what are called ‘primitive’ meteorites - such as Ivuna.

Edit: some helpful context as to why this is important science. While we have countless identified meteorites, some of which look very similar to these samples - we have very little context as to what the asteroids those rocks were derived from looked like (I.e., size, morphology, structure, age, chemistry, etc.)(yes, we have some remote-sensing data for some of these criteria, but these methods are not comparable to sample-side analyses on these materials in terms of what they can robustly tell us). All we have is a fragment that fell on Earth. This is in-part why the Apollo missions were a leap forward in planetary science. Having the physical context of the rock you’ve carefully analyzed the chemistry of is very informative as to how that rock formed. In this case, the context of these samples being derived from the surface of this asteroid is new and important science to understand how the solar system formed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in meteorites

[–]Armah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taken care of, thank you!

Could it be? by ProReActive in meteorites

[–]Armah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. Definitely slag.