Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Rhodium and I had a thing going on once...


...stumped?
It's a coaster I made from a ceramic tile blank--painted, glazed, and kiln-fired.
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  1. UnknownOctober 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM

    I've given Rhodium jewelry to women before. Bad idea? Don't tell me that it's radioactive or something.

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  2. chickelitOctober 10, 2012 at 2:09 PM

    Greta idea! wish I could afford to do that. I'd rather give blue diamonds.

    Natural rhodium is not radioactive. It has a unique property of being nearly mono-isotopic (Rh-103). It has unique NMR properties and I use to tickle her spins, making her do flips.

    Pure rhodium jewelry is expensive. Here is the market price: link. It lags gold, but years ago it was more precious than gold per ounce. Like platinum, rhodium's price is driven by the catalyst industry.

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  3. LLOctober 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    Blue diamonds are likely to get you laid quicker (and more aggressively) than Rhodium jewelry.

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  4. chickelitOctober 10, 2012 at 4:37 PM

    Yes, blue diamonds are prettier than precious metals, except for gold.

    I have a platinum wedding band. A German friend once scoffed it saying, "it looks just like nickel"!

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    1. NichevoApril 20, 2019 at 2:38 PM

      E.E. "Doc" Smith wished that people would abandon the use of platinum for jewelry so that it would be more available for scientific and industrial purposes.

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  5. The DudeOctober 11, 2012 at 7:36 AM

    Did you go to the mineral hall at the Smithsonian? They have a nice blue diamond in there. Hope you saw it.

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  6. chickelitOctober 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM

    I did see the Hope Diamond, Sixty. It was a bit smaller IRL than I expected, but so are a lot of things.

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  7. The DudeOctober 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    The Hope diamond is too small. Well alrighty then. I first saw it when I was 9 - it still seems as large to me now as it did then. Sure, it was cut out of a larger diamond, and yeah, that would have been nice to see, but dang - that is one big ass hulking blue diamond!

    Did you see the red diamond - about the diameter of a dime? I always liked that one.

    There used to be a yellow diamond the size of a goose egg there. Not a great color, but it was large enough to make up for that.

    The 200 pound topaz were nice.

    The Russian crown jewels were pretty nice - donated by Margaret Merriweather Post as I recall. Cereal jewelry buyer, apparently.

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  8. The DudeOctober 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM

    But all that is neither here nor there - the real question is - what kind of tree did that round come from?

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  9. The DudeOctober 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM

    And make that Marjorie, not Margaret.

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  10. The DudeOctober 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM

    Looks like a conifer to me. What's a conifer, Sixty?

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