Can anyone figure out what this is?!

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

I'm trying to figure out what to do with this stuff... It's pretty delicate so a lot of my ideas have failed so far. I have a feeling that nobody will be able to figure this out. If you have any ideas on what to do with it or guesses of what it is post and let me know. I have a shoebox full of this "stuff" so I have a lot to play around with.

[Aymie]

I have a really great idea...share some with me. Looks like bismuth.

[hwcglass]

I would guess that you bought it in tucson. it's a commen metal, and yup, i know what it is. I won't spoil it for every one.

i would think that it could be re-struck (flame or kiln)? you think?

[LFC]

is it crystalized titanium? titanium can look and act very similar, as far far as what to do with it I have no idea.... you could grind it up and pretend it was fairy dust??? or snort it..... :lick:

[hwcglass]

yes, i would say it is titanium. from a crucible. ENCASE THAT SHIT.

[Pilgrim]

Its slag from welding...i think its Titanium too

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

haha! Good guesses but nobody is even close so far. I know it looks really metallic but it is not a metal. I am starting to wonder if I am the first human to harvest this intergalactic rainbow matter? :puzzled::mushroom::alien:

I wonder if Doug can figure this one out. He seems to know something about everything.....

[MUPH]

You're going to be rich becuase your the only person who knows where to find white crud

[organicglass.h]

looks like tin foil. chase the dragon

[ALIEN!]

be damned if that aint rainbow hematite

[lucidvisions]

It looks alot like the type of foil they sell in craft stores for leafing. The company we've used before has it this color but I forgot what it was called. They also make gold, silver and bronze in color. We always called it "oil slick".

Josh

[Glassroots]

fossilized tears of jesus?

[menty666]

That what you've got right there, my friend, is the remains of the happy fun ball. I suggest you leave it be or it'll getchya!

[Granger's Glass]

its those lab grown Bismuth crystals that have been melted or hammered flat?

[Aymie]

I said bismuth first :tongue2:

[ALIEN!]

still think its rainbow hematite, some real nice stuff too.

[Greymatter Glass]

it's not bismuth....


looks like Ti slag from a furnace...

Could be iridized slag from a lava flow?

[Greymatter Glass]

the colors aren't as good in this picture, but it looks like this stuff we'd find in fresh lava flows in Hawaii:

http://www.greymatter.org/lava/lava.jpg

(more eruption pics here: http://www.greymatter.org/lava/ )

[Greymatter Glass]

I have to say it could be rainbow hematite also after finding this picture:

http://minerals.caltech.edu/COLOR_Causes/Physical_Process/hematite_Georgia.jpg

whatever it is, it _IS_ metal. It's metal that causes that iridescence... no matter what base it's on. i.e. we consider dicro to be glass, but it's metal on glass that makes it dichro.

-Doug

[Ben 'Spice' Crowley]

what is it what is it do tell

[hwcglass]

it is either titanium or the woman who sold me mine is a LIAR WHORE; but of course she is not, in fact, she is very nice, informative in a truthful, non-liar whore kind of way.

[Aymie]

I'm positive it isn't bismuth even though bismuth looks more like it than the picture of the crap I posted. :D

Both bismuth (top) and hematite (bottom) have a very dark base...shiny gray almost black. My next guess is some form of bornite (middle pic)


This is fun...I love rocks...we'll just jack the thread and all post pictures of pretty rocks as punishment for not telling us what it is already.

[hwcglass]

wow. (that's a nice set of rocks you got there, lady)

[Aymie]

wow.

what are we wowing here? The pretty rocks or me harassing Doug?


Whatever it is, it is pretty and I want some. What happens if you encase it?

[Greymatter Glass]

Don't tell anyone but I just made whoopie with my brother!

SAY WHAT!? heh.

[Aymie]

Hell yeah...he's hot!!!

[Johan]

Considering the fact that it has an irradesent oxide...it definitely contains some metals. It looks insanely brittle...My first thoughts were Titanium slag...

[newmexicomagma]

if i can remember correctly from my rock days it seems to look like peacock copper? whatever it is looks like cool stuff.

[Aymie]

if i can remember correctly from my rock days it seems to look like peacock copper?

That is the same as the stuff in the middle picture.

[newmexicomagma]

touche

[Super Phunk]

Imagine that this is something that can't be identified because it chooses not to be, matter of the most high inelligence....

[Johan]

I think it's petrified jesus poop.

[filthy god brother]

It's frumanduh cheese from Supermans scrotum.

[filthy god brother]

??????

[ALIEN!]

rainbow pyrite maybe? Im going carazy here...

[FredLight]

I thought it looked like masking foil removed from a vapor deposition chamber.

That's my best guess, and I don't think I'm right.

[ALIEN!]

Tell us before Nomad gets angry. This is what happens when The Nomad is angered:17206

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

I'm having fun reading all these guesses, but still nobody is correct. Here are a few hints: It is not a rock and if it does contain metal it is a very small amount. It's hard for me to figure out how any metal could be in it. This stuff was produced by me, but it was completely unintentional. It is a by-product from what I was really doing.


Whatever it is, it is pretty and I want some. What happens if you encase it?
If I tried to ship some to you I can almost guarantee it would be dust by the time it got to you. This stuff really is that fragile. My attempts to encase it have all failed. All the color disappears incredibly easily with very little heat.

Here are 2 more photos:

[Johan]

Is it a way way way too overcooked hamburger.

[jiminyrootkit]

the slag/crusties/whatever from a grill? woodstove? something like that?
-f

[ALIEN!]

It is a by-product from what I was really doing.


Damn dude, I feel sorry for your ol lady.

[Slow]

Is it solidified crusties from an oil change?

[vetropod]

Is it a way way way too overcooked hamburger.

This one wins my vote! :D

[$$$$$$$]

Amazon night powder

[Johan]

It could be robot poo

[nodice]

Ever try fuming with it? Every once in a while I see pipes(mostly inexpensive waterpipes) with stuff on them that looks like pink/purple/blue/green metalic fuming, and I always wondered what it was.

[Jimi The Don]

silicon carbide? or something along that lines would be my hypothesis..

but jesus poop is on my list as well..

[Udai Hussien]

Ever try fuming with it? Every once in a while I see pipes(mostly inexpensive waterpipes) with stuff on them that looks like pink/purple/blue/green metalic fuming, and I always wondered what it was.that is a combo of gold and silver fuming. Grandad glass used to do some crazy fuming techs

[Kevin Bumble]

did you hold onto something with your gloves too long maybe paddling in some powder like it was soft glass. pm me!.. i won't tell any one promise :D

[shark bait]

Its Rainbow Bright crustys

[Mark F]

Crinkle dichroic

[Jeremy D.N.]

resin scraped from a dale chihuly tube

[ALIEN!]

:flasher: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :blinky: :flasher:

17224

[VOORHEES]

Yeah, wow!!^^^^


I'm going to agree with Adam...amazon night powder of some sort.

[glassdocnc]

could be: matted fiber fragments left over after firing pottery for raku finish

potential use: place on flat sheet of clear of contrasting colored glass (backing), sandwich with clear lens on top (will probably have to be done cold if the material is fragile) fuse in kiln, then try to work with it.

[EarthTones]

Maui Wowie & Labrador?

[Shatner]

Maui Wowie & Labrador?

:dieslaugh:evilLaugh:D

[Big Jay]

your one of those sick people that buy a really big dog... tie it on a heavy ass chain and then measure off exactly how far the chain will reach and put a huge ass dog treat 3" 's away. Fetch boy.. ooh you almost had it that time..try again... ooh.. its ok doggy keep trying!
Spit it out already or I call shanigans. :wes:

[ALIEN!]

burnt glaze?

[Kevin Bumble]

oh he told me!!!!!!! its so dope!!!! but i had to promise too keep it quiet. just pm him. I'm just thinking of all the possibility's "effing amazing"

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

your one of those sick people that buy a really big dog... tie it on a heavy ass chain and then measure off exactly how far the chain will reach and put a huge ass dog treat 3" 's away. Fetch boy.. ooh you almost had it that time..try again... ooh.. its ok doggy keep trying!
Spit it out already or I call shanigans. :wes:


Alright..... haha I don't want to bore you all with this guessing so I will just reveal the secret stuff. It's creosote.(mostly carbon) I cleaned it out of my chimney and noticed this insane rainbow of colors. It forms in layers and each layer seems to be a different color. I can scratch away at the layers to reveal different colors. I think most people would just throw this stuff away, but I'm trying to find some use for it... Thanks for the ideas some of you gave and the funny guesses. :)

Can anyone explain what produced the colors? :puzzled:

[hwcglass]

there was a woman selling stuff at the tucson shows that looked exactly like that, it was not at all brittle, i am almost sure she told me it was titanium. i'm gonna try and track down her web page or somthing.

from the stove. so cool. thanks.

[Slow]

If I recall, "creosote" is also used to describe a wood-preserving oil made from coal tar. If you were burning treated wood, some of this oil may have been deposited with the soot in your chimney, causing that "rainbow-oil-slick" look (hence my previous, uneducated guess about motor oil). Anyway, that's my best guess.
Good luck with that stuff! And don't eat it (not that you would), it might be carcinogenic.

[hwcglass]

I called Jenny (ex. goddess of BBS) and she, of course, knew the answer:

http://www.hollygage.com/

And yes, titanium.

http://www.hollygage.com/Images/*titanium22409/224094.jpg

http://www.hollygage.com/Images/*titanium22409/224096.jpg

http://www.hollygage.com/Images/*titanium22109/221095.jpg

I feel like less of a lair now.

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

If I recall, "creosote" is also used to describe a wood-preserving oil made from coal tar. If you were burning treated wood, some of this oil may have been deposited with the soot in your chimney, causing that "rainbow-oil-slick" look (hence my previous, uneducated guess about motor oil). Anyway, that's my best guess.
Good luck with that stuff! And don't eat it (not that you would), it might be carcinogenic.

Yeah, creosote has a few different meanings. The firewood I burn is just normal wood. Definitely not treated in any way. I've been burning the same wood for years and it was only this one time I noticed the rainbow effect.



And thanks for the links hwcglass. That titanium really does look similar.

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

I can't believe this thread just died after I revealed the secret. Damn.


(lol)

[Kevin Bumble]

word thx for shipping me that "rainbow bright shite" mang my microwave encases it like it was butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 30584

30585
fuckin awsomewness to come

30586

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

yeah I haven't tried it yet personally but Kevin tells me this stuff will actually encase in boro really easy with the microwave method. I have tried so many different ways to use it but never succeeded, but when kevin got the samples from me last week his first try using it he completely blew my mind. I have NEVER seen a milli so insane as what he made from the microwave with it. I hope he is willing to post some photos of the piece he made with it.

[kage]

dude, send me some o that :)

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

dude, send me some o that :)

how much do you desire??? Like I said a few years ago I still have a shoebox full of this stuff. it has endless colors as you can break off layers to reveal different colors.

[kage]

all of it...lol...pm sent

[Kevin Bumble]

my question is what is it really i mean what is the stuff???
lloks dope so i would like to get some more!!!

[BombDiggity]

You can make tire prep for go cart racing out of it....

[richsantaclaus]

Platium - I have several thin sheets of this metal

plat·i·num n
a precious silvery-white metallic element, highly malleable and ductile and highly resistant to chemicals and heat, used in jewelry and chemically as a catalyst and in electroplating. Symbol Pt