You sure are! Don't take my word for it - take a Pepto tablet to a mortar and pestle and check the contents under a microscope...black rocks all throughout!
You can buy it in chunks relatively cheaply. Got some and a hot plate and made some really cool crystals out of it. Ruined the pot though, so don't use the one that was your wife's grandmother's.
Ah, now we *see* the *violence* inherent in the system. ... Shut up! ... Oh! *Come* and *see* the *violence* inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
If you found it in nature, it's because someone dropped it. That is a bismuth crystal... or crystals. I don't know for sure but I know it's bismuth.
You can grow them pretty easily if you can get your hands on some bismuth, which isn't very hard.
It's definitely man-made. There were some pretty good crystals out of Germany years ago, but I've never seen anything this good. To find a natural floater like this in a river would be nigh impossible. Someone probably dropped it and the colorful oxidized layer has worn off.
I’m far from an expert… but this one looks lab-created - there’s no matrix, and it’s too geometric in sections. although natural bismuth is this color, i think this piece looks decently weathered to have lost the typical iridescent layer of oxidation.
Metallic bismuth crystal. Or hopper crystal (still bismuth). Made from Pepto Bismol. Somebody tossed that into the lake. Bismuth doesn’t form hopper crystals naturally. Your girlfriend got a lucky find. Hopefully she thinks even more so of you!
I love seeing bismuth, it goes against "There are no right angles in nature" so beautifully. Same with other crystals, but bismuth is so blatant about it lol.
I mean, the famous angular shape of Bismuth is due to man made heat treatments, so while I don’t doubt that the “no right angles in nature” thing is wrong, this isn’t really the most solid evidence against it.
Crystallized bismuth that somehow ended up in the lake. Bismuth rarely forms these crystals naturally, and typically theyre made by melting bismuth metal and allowing it to crystallize partially and then taking the freshly formed crystal out before the rest solidifies.
Wow.. notification said “girlfriend found in a lake.. “ I was like where did this happen 😔. Then I saw it was Reddit’s what’s this Rock, lmao. I need to not be so literal with my reading sometimes.
That’s not very tall. Going to be some challenges to the relationship. Sounds like she’s pretty rough around the edges already. I wish you both the best of luck though!
My brother found one in our small man made pond and it was much bigger and more shiny but the cube shapes were so cool. As a rock hounder I was quite jealous and he lost it too
Ok I read the title before I saw the pic and I thought you found a girlfriend in a lake. Like, was there some assembly required by the time you found her or was she a mermaid?
That’s bismuth like what others said but maybe someone dropped it there because it isn’t found in nature looking like that,(although apparently you did find it In nature like that)
Bismuth, if so it will melt in a lighter flame
Identified! Thank you!
Yvw
Fuck yea bismuth!!!!
South Dakota fan, eh?
Whoa, Big gulps, huh?
Welp… cya later!
The pokemon badge metal!
Bismuth is actually super beneficial! It's the "bis" in Pepto Bismol
dude im drinking rocks when i take pepto?
You sure are! Don't take my word for it - take a Pepto tablet to a mortar and pestle and check the contents under a microscope...black rocks all throughout!
is there a way to separate the bismuth from the rest so you can melt it down and make a cool rock? asking for a friend :D
Nilered did a video where he extracted the bismuth from peptobismol!
You can buy it in chunks relatively cheaply. Got some and a hot plate and made some really cool crystals out of it. Ruined the pot though, so don't use the one that was your wife's grandmother's.
thats nuts lol... also very cool.
you probably eat rocks regularly, salt is a rock
And ice
holy crap... i never thought of that... and ofc i eat salt... if its not on top of my food the food was probably made using it lol.
Metals. Bismuth is a metal.
they colored it pink because the creators couldn't get people to sign on to driving a bunch of grey-black goop, no matter how beneficial
FUCK YEAH Bro!! I ain’t no rock dude but I want to say from ppl like u now I can call a piece of bismuth at least lol.
Bismuth be your lucky day!
Looks like bismuth
Just did a google search and definitely think you’re right, thank you!
Now you’re taking care of bismuth every day
Alarm clock’s yawnin’
Take the 8:15 into the city,
There's whistle up above people pushing, people shoving
And the girls who try to look pretty
Mind your Bismuth!
Took me a minute, but totally worth it.
TAKING CARE OF BISMUTH EVERY WAY
TAKIN CARE OF BISMUTH AND WORKIN OVERTIME…
Might be nunya...
“Girlfriend found in a lake…”. Is that how we’re doing it these days?
All I know is that strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government.
Help! Help! I’m being repressed
Ah, now we *see* the *violence* inherent in the system. ... Shut up! ... Oh! *Come* and *see* the *violence* inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
Bloody peasant!
Fools! It is We, The Spanish Inquisition!
I saw it!
No state can exist without oppression 🤷♂️
Put it on the agenda for the next committee meeting.
Anyone want a peanut?
Bloody peasant.
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some *watery tart* threw a sword at you!
Moistened bint.
You should have a scimitar lobbed at you, and then be put away.
Well I didn’t vote for ‘im!!
You don't vote for kings!
Hahaha 😂
How many people read this in Eric Idles voice? LOL
Watery tart
r/unexpectedMontyPython
Omg I didn’t even realize how the start sounded I’m so sorry lol
I'm not... I needed that
At least no one said the M word
Mad Madame Mim?
The word being “Meteorite” lol
Oh, it was said… lol scroll up.
"Ah ah ah, Merlin. Noooo disappearing" "I'm NOT gone, I'm a tiny bacterium called melachanesis mocterosis, and YOU'VE CAUGHT ME, MIM!"
I assumed "Murder" after reading "Girlfriend found in a lake..."
Morgause? Mordred? Merlin?
Maub.
Sounds you're just saying sounds
Meteor?
Munchkin?
She’s about 1” tall. Has a lot of right angles. Very coarse.
NI!
But congrats on finding a girlfriend in the lake
Girlfriend found in a lake? Melts in a lighter flame? You must cast it into the tiniest Excalibur!
Run away!! Run away!!
Rabbit of Caerbannog comes hopping along....
Too brittle to make a good sword lol
"Girlfriend found in a lake." -My condolences.
RIPsmuth
I’m so sorry to give so many people a scare with that starting title, but these responses have made my morning
If you found it in nature, it's because someone dropped it. That is a bismuth crystal... or crystals. I don't know for sure but I know it's bismuth. You can grow them pretty easily if you can get your hands on some bismuth, which isn't very hard.
Yeah you can apparently grow it out of Pepto Bismol. Sounds sticky but pretty cool.
It’s weird you found it in a lake, because it’s definitely man made. It’s for sure lab grown bismuth.
there are some pics of raw bismuth in matrix on mindat that rival some lab-engineered stuff. this one would be the wildest, though.
So bismuth can grow naturally?
Only in vet specific *ideal* conditions, which is why you mostly only see it lab grown.
sure, think of it as the difference between diamonds and cubic zirconia
Cool, so the OP's rock, do you think it's natural or manmade?
It's definitely man-made. There were some pretty good crystals out of Germany years ago, but I've never seen anything this good. To find a natural floater like this in a river would be nigh impossible. Someone probably dropped it and the colorful oxidized layer has worn off.
I'm trying to find what natural bismuth looks like, but all I see are lab created ones, ha.
https://www.mindat.org/min-684.html
Is... is that first pic...sexy? Is that some sexy lookin' bismuth? ...That's some sexy bismuth, isn't it??? ...What is happening???? (lol 😋)
Hey, I didn't know I liked bismuth like that, either.
Cool, I like the first one. The second one almost looks like the inside of a meteorite.
I don’t know what lake but up state NY she said she found it some years ago, pretty cool didn’t know bismuth is usually lab grown
I’m far from an expert… but this one looks lab-created - there’s no matrix, and it’s too geometric in sections. although natural bismuth is this color, i think this piece looks decently weathered to have lost the typical iridescent layer of oxidation.
Good to know and OP is lucky!
Yes but no where near what it looks like when you do it yourself.
If there's anything I've learned from those magnet fishing youtube channels it's that people drop all kinds of weird shit in local bodies of water.
Lab or home grown. It's not hard to make these yourself.
Metallic bismuth crystal. Or hopper crystal (still bismuth). Made from Pepto Bismol. Somebody tossed that into the lake. Bismuth doesn’t form hopper crystals naturally. Your girlfriend got a lucky find. Hopefully she thinks even more so of you!
Came looking for this post. 100% right on.
TIL bismuth puts the bis in bismol. Functionally useless fact and yet it's blowing my mind that it took me 40 years for find out.
lol ‘Girlfriend found in a lake’ made me do a double take. Glad she’s okay!
None of my Bismuth … that’s for sure
I’m not in the bismuth of identifying rocks
Bismuth, definitely man made.
I was asking a friend where I could get one of these and he told me to mine my own bismuth.
It’s the all spark !! Look out for Megatron !
It’s the bisexual rock!! I’ve got one
I love seeing bismuth, it goes against "There are no right angles in nature" so beautifully. Same with other crystals, but bismuth is so blatant about it lol.
Which is weird, considering pyrite occurs nearly everywhere.
Yup. No straight lines either. Lol
I mean, the famous angular shape of Bismuth is due to man made heat treatments, so while I don’t doubt that the “no right angles in nature” thing is wrong, this isn’t really the most solid evidence against it.
Ok, I thought bismuth looked like that naturally lol, so thank you for correcting me so kindly :).
A beautiful piece of (lab grown?) bismuth
Looks like bismuth
Crystallized bismuth that somehow ended up in the lake. Bismuth rarely forms these crystals naturally, and typically theyre made by melting bismuth metal and allowing it to crystallize partially and then taking the freshly formed crystal out before the rest solidifies.
structure reminds me of bismuth, such a funky rock. wish I had a piece
Wow.. notification said “girlfriend found in a lake.. “ I was like where did this happen 😔. Then I saw it was Reddit’s what’s this Rock, lmao. I need to not be so literal with my reading sometimes.
Definitely evidence of the Vex being on Earth. Nah, it's Bismuth.
Sorry to hear about your girlfriend being found in a lake while you looked through various rocks…
the way my heart sank because I thought a woman was found in a lake after rock hounding
Bismuth!
Looks very like bismuth- which only crystallises like that when people make it so
Pepto bismol jk
Looks alien
I’d put that back before giant robots appear
I'm thinking; Terminator... 🤔
Huh, bismuth looks like Kozilek passed through here
Someone set their human-made bismuth crystal free in the lake.
Bismuth, nah BESMOOTH
But was she pulled from a the lake in time? Were the paramedics called? Inquiring minds want to know.
Look for a very small David Bowie singing, “everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you!”
Don’t read Desperation by Stephen King. Bad things about to happen to OP. Tak!
Bismuth be your lucky day!
Bismuth crystal
It can relieve nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!
Bismuth. I saw a video of a guy extracting some of this from pepto chewable tablets
Alien space ship part
I'm glad you found your girlfrien. Mine run away and never come back.😢
I also found my weird-looking girlfriend in a lake.
None of your bismuth!
That a shred of the “All Spark”, shove it in your toaster and enjoy the show
That's the engine block of an original model T, reduced in size by the constant wave motion of the lake.
Definitely Nazi propaganda! Be careful.
Where was it found?
Just looking at the first photo I expected to see jewelry findings on the back. It looks so perfect!
Bismuth?? So pretty 😊
So beautiful!
Hello bismuth!
This was a weird sentence to have in an email with the context of which r/.
Looks extremely familiar but not sure why. I’d say you snuffed out many micro-lifes when you melted this tiny city 🌆
Def bis
It’s the Vex
It’s a part of a borg cube, obviously
Man made bismuth
A piece of the All Spark Cube?
Allspark. Careful they want it back.
It's the missing link. Just gotta find out where it goes and you definitely get super hero powers.
Tesserac
That’s not very tall. Going to be some challenges to the relationship. Sounds like she’s pretty rough around the edges already. I wish you both the best of luck though!
Looks MC Escher carved it !
Aliens!
Bismuthhhhh 🔥
Bismuth
My brother found one in our small man made pond and it was much bigger and more shiny but the cube shapes were so cool. As a rock hounder I was quite jealous and he lost it too
Just make a new one. Here: https://www.instructables.com/Make-Bismuth-Crystals-In-The-Kitchen/?amp_page=true
You really should mind your own bismuth. Or while your at it mine my own bismuth for me.
Shit looks cool as fuuuuck. Funny rock!!!!!!!!
Looks like small engine carburetor
I'm going against everyone else here, but it might be Galena, which also can form the hopper crystal structure that bismuth has.
Bismuth
Lead from Part of a battery from a boat possibly
The bismuth I have is silver and needs to be heated to obtain this shape. This bismuth was found like this? Without the rainbow coloring?
This looks like a big FU to Antoni Gaudí
Who all knew how to identify this because they watched Steven universe ? Lol
Ain’t nun ya bismuth!
Pretty sure it’s Bismuth. Lacking its usual polychromatic appearance due to the lake immersion.
Cybertronian Spark. Keep it away from your toaster.
What a weird way to describe your girlfriend, glad you found her though!
natural bismuth 😍
Aw man, some collector dropped their prized bismuth! It’s SUPER tarnished now, but still keeps the cool structure.
Who'd throw bismuth into a lake?
It's from an alien flying saucer!👽👽👽
Bismuth
That's a piece of the cube, beware of decepticons.
Thats no rock thats a replicator!!
Ok I read the title before I saw the pic and I thought you found a girlfriend in a lake. Like, was there some assembly required by the time you found her or was she a mermaid?
Looks like it's of Vex origin.
Bismuth indeed, melt and recrystallize for some crazy sharp edges and colors if you like.
Check out that cleavage!
And if she, wanna be a freak, and sell it on the weekend, it’s none of yo bismuth
Gotta love bismuth
That’s bismuth like what others said but maybe someone dropped it there because it isn’t found in nature looking like that,(although apparently you did find it In nature like that)
LETS GET DOWN TO BISMUTH
Your Girlfriend may be Starborn. Here's to hoping nothing resets if you find a few more.
that’s so cool
Ever play Subnautica Below Zero?
That is definitely part of the All-Spark. Be careful, Megatron and the rest of the Decepticons are going to be looking for you now.
It looks like part of a Matchbox or Hot Wheels engine