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nature's crystalline architecture, built atom by atom while you weren't looking
means A naturally occurring inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly crystal structure — the stuff rocks, gems, and ores are made of.
from From Medieval Latin minerale, 'something mined,' which grew out of minera, 'ore' or 'mine.' That word is likely tied to the verb behind 'mine' itself — the act of digging into the earth to pull out what it's hoarding. So baked into the name is the human gesture of reaching down and prying loose the planet's hidden architecture.
- strict rules
- must be solid, inorganic, with ordered atomic structure
- count
- over 5,800 species recognized and growing
- diamond truth
- just carbon, rearranged under absurd pressure
- in you
- your bones are partly the mineral apatite
- hardness king
- diamond scratches everything, nothing scratches back
diamond — crystalline carbon, hardness 10 on mohs scale, formed under extreme pressure in earth's mantle
quartz — silicon dioxide, most abundant mineral in earth's crust, used in watches and electronics
halite — rock salt, sodium chloride, mined in dead sea and utah's bonneville salt flats
magnetite — iron oxide, magnetic mineral, primary ore of iron, found in kiruna sweden mines