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I'm currently researching the chemical prosperities of a number of naturally occurring gemstones in the hopes of being able to produce some lists for Paige. Namely, what she can and can't turn into thus far along with a list of ones that she's working on.

Diamond, which is composed of carbons bonded using all four of their valence electrons rather than only three (which makes graphite) is actually comparatively easy when you look at moonstone (KAlSi₃O₈). One of the problems I'm having is the number of stones that are made up of SiO₂ but the densities are different.

Grrrr. Suddenly wishing that I had minored in chemistry, after all.

ETA: teza, I cannot think of a way to keep the Maze thread going. Do you mind if I have Betsy bow out with a longer version of a "See you later" post?

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Rules: Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc.

Created by liviapenn, but stolen from about a million others. For the sake of consistency, they're in order by, well, either first, last or code name because I'm difficult.

Not very interesting at all.

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