I went PrepHole hiking along a lake in East Tennessee and came across this next to the water. I didn't think it could be a gem considering how big it is so I assumed it was glass. I threw it as hard as I could against a rock and it didn't break or even chip it. I know they made green glass but it's not as common ant more and it seemed pretty thick to be glass.
When I got home I held it to a light and you can see some bubbles in i
Bubbles don’t form in gems. Sometimes you’ll find them in natural glass, but that’s super rare. And gems can have gas in them but it’s not perfectly round like that.
Looks like glass to my untrained eye. The bottoms of wine bottles can be very thick and often green.
probably this but im no geologer, maybe it came off an old demijohn
Malachite?
i love the classic found a green piece of gem that is all likelihood a piece of glass from a bottle thread
>Glass
More importantly, do something with your hands like chopping wood or gardening, they're too soft.
check the second pic, he does actually have dry skin and a cut.
It's glass. It's probably the result of some redneck throwing a wine bottle into a fire.
I guess I should add that you need to do a standard geologists test - is it harder then glass. This is easy to do. Find a piece of glass and try to scratch it with your shard. If you can make a mark, it's harder then glass and might be something interesting. If you can't make a mark, it's glass.
It did scratch the glass! Lol frick the rest of you dipshits! What fricking wine bottle has two different shades of green like this??
It’s soda-lime glass, Anon. It’s harder than regular glass so yes, it will scratch it.Just google “soda-lime glass mohs” and “window glass mohs” and see for yourself. I mentioned the bubble. Gas bubbles can form in glass because it cools fast enough to trap them. Gems don’t form this way, so they don’t contain round bubbles.
I tried to scratch it with a steel screw and it wouldn't scratch
And the hardness of that screw? Look it up; soda-lime glass is harder than steel.
Kek you fricking turd burglar. That's not how hardness works.
>Lol frick the rest of you dipshits!
Reread "might be something interesting" part
It's an arrowhead bro.
ah yes, "Tard's Emerald"
aka green glass
Heineken Emerald
Not unknown in E. Tennesee
99,99% sure it's just a splinter from a wine bottle. Often peopld throw their bottles into the water and the river smashes it against some rocks which leaves you with these gem like pieces. Also the bubbles are a giveaway.
if it's glass the hardness could be explained by getting extremely hot in a campfire and then getting quenched with water, like a prince rupert's drop
Bumping this post just because it's entertaining. Show us more of your moronation, OP.
Looks like slag glass. A byproduct from old mills processing rare earth metals such and silver and iron. I have heaps of it in creeks and streams near me. Both a chalky blue color and a greenish glass color too -middle Tennessean
It's the shit left behind after a nuclear test
Trinitite
it’s glass. I just dropped it there earlier to bait you. the other anons are right.
its moronanium, very rare mineral
It's nice! I'd carve it into a pendant. Like a eagle head, a feather, a cross, a swastika, anything.
Make it nice and sell it or give it to a girl I like.
>flashbacks of 7 year old me banging the cobbles under the eaves at my grandparents' house, in awe of all the pretty colors