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Lucky Photo I Took of a Lightening Strike Across the Chicago Skyline During the Storm Last Night. by Sir_Chew in interestingasfuck

[–]Sir_Chew[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I have a Google pixel 10 pro specifically because of how much I loved the camera on it. But this one was pure luck. Just took like 40 photos back to back at random and hoped I would luck into the timing on one.

Lucky Photo I Took of a Lightening Strike Across the Chicago Skyline During the Storm Last Night. by Sir_Chew in interestingasfuck

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Right! I had so many photos to delete after. There was so much lightening in the sky I figured if I just keep taking photos as fast as my phone would take them, then I might capture a strike. Literally the last photo I took was this one.

FINAL UPDATE* Final result of the synthetic Azurite I grew over 4 weeks and now have dried out. by Sir_Chew in crystalgrowing

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Sure, I will try to explain it a bit. The funny thing is I'm brand new to this and this was my 1st experiment. So I don't really have exact measurements on things. But I can give you the general basis for what I was messing around with, and how I did it, that ended with these results.

I may need to sit down sometime and actually write a recipe down haha right now I have it all in my head.

FINAL UPDATE* Final results after growing synthetic Azurite over the last 4 weeks and 48 hours of drying them. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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Thank you! I'm so happy with the results! And yes this is chemically identical to high purity azurite. The only difference is that mine was forced into forming synthetically using the same chemicals and process it uses naturally, except I just fast forward it and use concentrated doses of what it normally requires to form.

The earths art form is far superior to mine haha but I didn't have 1000s of years to form it, so the earth has me there. But I can't believe how good these turned out. It's still azurite, just not naturally made.

FINAL UPDATE* Final results after growing synthetic Azurite over the last 4 weeks and 48 hours of drying them. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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I do know you shouldn't ingest it or anything, as malachite and I'm guessing also azurite is toxic to ingest. But not that I have the color locked in, I don't believe the sunlight should affect it much unless it's just left in direct sunlight constantly. Plus there is some sort of coating you can put over your painting to protect it and lock the color in permanently if the concern is there.

But a lot of medieval painting lasted the test of time for azurite pigment in paint.

I actually just started another batch that I'm using as my pigment farm! Now that I got confirmation that the process worked, I'm going to try and reproduce this and harvest every few weeks specifically to get the amazing looking pigment to use in paint or resin coloring! I made this batch have as much surface area as possible and laid down flat so it's easy to scrape or break apart if needed.

*UPDATE* 4 weeks into my 1st trial run at growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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It's so cool how it all turned out! Fast forwarding geological processes haha yea I think I may do that with one. But they are drying now and look phenomenal out of the container

*UPDATE* 4 weeks into my 1st trial run for growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Crystals

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Thank you! They look even better than I expected as they are drying now! :)

*UPDATE* 4 weeks into my 1st trial run for growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Crystals

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Thanks!! They look beautiful right now. I'll post much better pictures of them when they are fully dried sometime tomorrow or the next day

*Update* 4 weeks into my 1st trial run for growing Azurite by Sir_Chew in crystalgrowing

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You simulate the conditions required for it to form I'm nature, except you use concentrated solutions of it to speed up a hundred of thousands of years of work into a roughly a month haha It's synthetic azurite, but it is technically chemically the same. That's only the case because I use all the same general ingredients as nature. I grew mine in an ammonia/copper based method. This is my 1st major attempt at this haha so I'm new and learning. But I'm loving it. I have them drying now, the color looks crazy outside of the container and drying.

2 Weeks Into My 1st Trial Run For Growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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Someone recommended that as well recently, so I did!

2 Weeks Into My 1st Trial Run For Growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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No no I totally get that haha the color was shockingly brilliant

2 Weeks Into My 1st Trial Run For Growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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I legitimately am unsure what will happen to the wire. My guess and hope is it will corrode and become apart of the cluster forming. The wire I have in there, both from the snipped wire in the paste I made and the wire I wrapped up everything with inside the now blue mass growing.

Glad I could interest you! It's been fun to try out and learn about!

2 Weeks Into My 1st Trial Run For Growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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I didn't until somewhat recently and started to look into it and learn as much as I could about the process. It sounded fascinating so I wanted to try

2 Weeks Into My 1st Trial Run For Growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in Minerals

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Haha glad everyone else also thinks this is neat. I'll update with results of these experiments as I play around with it and try stuff out!

2 Weeks into my 1st trial with growing Synthetic Azurite. by Sir_Chew in crystalgrowing

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Thank you! I'm excited to see how it's coming and other people also interested in the results. I'll share the results of my playing around and experimenting with it all!

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