[meteorite-list] Moldavite question

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Mark Bowling escribe:

>>I saw a seller selling a Moldavite as a "great channeling crystal". 
THAT's OK.

>>Aren't Moldavites a type of impactite glass, 
YES, ACCORDING TO MANY SCIENTISTS' OPINIONS.

>>and thus lacking crystal structure (amorphous)?
BASICALLY CORRECT, THOUGH I'D BET STRESS RELATED MICROSTRUCTURES ARE USUALLY 
PRESENT SINCE COOLING WAS VIOLENT AND PRESSURES GREAT.

Hola Mark,

Your comment may unnerve a lot of believers, so let me try to come to the 
rescue before they are driven to wanton chocoholisticism.

Today's Spanish Word of the Day: "Cristal".  It most frequently translates as 
glass, as in, the thief broke my window's cristal (glass).

So what comes easy in Spanish, we'll have to work a little harder in English. 
 Pick up a good dictionary and see if "crystal" is limited to "oriented 
molecules".  Nope.  It has the following meaning, too:

Crystal: A very high quality of glass ...

Moldavites may not be crystalline at a molecular level, but they certainly 
aren't "Green Eggs and Ham," as Dr. Seuss wrote.  Speaking of which, when the 
real Dr. Seuss, a crystal expert, geologist and founding father of modern 
paleontology brought the world the word tectite and first suggested they might be 
meteoritic in origin, publishing on moldavites in 1901, he chose that word 
because it means melted ... and being an Austrian crystal expert, I am sure he 
wouldn't have told the great glass blowers of Austria that they weren't producing 
the world's finest crystal.  (Thank goodness, or they might have degenerated 
into severe chocoholisticitis fits.)

So, then, that fine crystal on the chocoholic pusher's Rolex watch ... 
crystal?=>> yes. high purity, _CLEAR_, glass.  Just like Evian's crystal clear 
water.

And what of that crystal ball?  How does it work?  Mystically as the tektite, 
I would guess it channels energy to a receptive user.  For the scientist in 
you ... it might be as mystically crystal clear as the amorphous crystals used 
on Mauna Kea, Hubble, Palomar, Cerro Pachon, Zelenchukskaya, ESO which channel 
energy so well, astronomers never fail to have other worldy and galactic 
experiences.  I don't think an astronomer would trade his big glass for a high 
quality quartz crystal in hopes of better channeling!!

Quotes by Green Eggs and Ham (T.G.) Dr. Seuss:

"I like nonsense.  It wakes up the brain cells."
"Fantasy is a way of looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope."

Dr. Franz Eduard Seuss:

Biosphere and chocolate may peacefully co-exist.
Gondwanaland had a plague of chocoholisticism but that couldn't sink Pangea.
Plate Tectonics doesn't anything to do with melting chocolate or zitty 
volcanoes.


Saludos, Doug


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