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"Feldspars".
Came upon it after reading about yesterday's amazing coloured skies.
Just thought I would share.
Plagioclase, the stripy twinned badass.
Great, that's 2 words I had to Google today! 😀
Hours of fun to be had measuring extinction angles.
Wierd things Feldspar. The most common mineral in the earth's crust, and to the untrained eye most look like quartz and yet it isn't nearly quite so boring as it should be. Interesting stuff.
I'll raise you a flibbertigibbet
Is feldspar formed penecontemporaneously?
Sesquipedalian.
sesquipedelian
Is that like sesquipedalian? Oh, Horace, that you should be living at this hour..
Is feldspar formed penecontemporaneously?
No, It's formed by agripulation of surrounding swannicles. If they don't agripulate they usually end up swarmalising.
Frenulum.
Best done with image search as it's easier to understand.
I do like that - it's a sort of written onomatopoeiasesquipedalian
Is that like sesquipedalian?
Yes. 🙂
Apologies, just finished a rather liquid lunch.
I thought feldspar was a swear word in the original Battlestar Galactica.
Selvedge. No, not the denim.
Esurient
Most common asteroid ore innit
Esurient
Oh! Like that one, will try to introduce it into a conversation tomorrow. 🙂
Umbrage
Our local traffic police tweeted out some drivers had suffered umbrage from other motorists.
Diurnal.
Ah! The good ole' Michel Levy test. Anorthite, bytownite, labradorite, andesine, oligoclase, albite, microcline, sanedine, orthoclase etc etc
Frenulum.
Best done with image search as it's easier to understand
Unfortunately I didn't have to look that one up, anyone else that didn't is either a doctor or has probably experienced an eye watering amount of pain too 😆
^ or an entomologist.
... etymologist, surely.
"Gadsbudlikins", "snoutband" and "triptaker".
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I thought feldspar was a swear word in the original Battlestar Galactica.
Not a genuine swear word at least, not according to Heinz
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Diurnal
That pretty much sums up my life at the moment. 😉
Psychomachia
Eclectic 😆
floccinaucinihilipilification
or
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
"Gadsbudlikins", "snoutband" and "triptaker".
Someone's had an attack of Elizabethan Tourettes
Haven't had to Google it because I know what it means, but since we just seem to be listing interesting words...
Lethologica