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#DesertEmerald

Crown Emerald Copper, Desert Queen Dioptase!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

Please vote for the pyroelectric, HOT desert mama! It's so amazing it can look like moss but is electric if you heat it up 😲

So, did someone call #electric #Mosstodon? The most arid deserts in the world have none, but grow moss-like dioptase to make up for it. The world's amazing, so spread the love & vote!
Forbidden #broccoli or green #cauliflower?

Dioptase was first mistaken to be emerald and gets its colour and toxicity from copper. Hence, Emerald Copper and Desert Emerald nicknames! Although it's toxic - no licking! 😅 - the vivid green tones make it great for healing & the heart. 💚💎🧡

Here's some different mossy shapes to spot in different photos, if you want to look toward the ground instead of what you see in clouds! Thanks for voting!

#MinCup25 #Dioptase with emerandine 🥦 #Moss #Angel #Horse #Fish #Desert #DesertEmerald #Tugtupite #Mineral #Emerandine #Malachite #Copper #Toxic #Emerald #Gemstones #Jewellery #Healing #Spirituality

Dioptase looking like forbidden broccoli or green cauliflower in close-up, or just plain moss on a rock. Enchanting Earth LLC image-51-dioptase_600x.

Please vote for dioptase as it has been rising in the cup every year, and deserves to be crowned queen. Let's get it through to the final round! Tugtupite is in its first year, and is nice as well, so I'd love to see it another year as well. Once dioptase wins, I can finally campaign the hardest for something else, heh.

Dioptase with emerandine again looking like a moss layer on a rock.

This one seems to have as if an angel-like winged shape in the middle, for more blessings to Ye Olde MinCup. Or something to remind you of dioptase's use in art, which has often depicted angels and so much more else.

There are 9000 year old statues with eyes coloured with dioptase pigment out there! Al-Ghaizan statues, some bicephalic, two-headed weirdoes you gotta love just as much as human creativity. :D

It's honestly amazing, so please tell everyone and get votes in for this contender!

Here again with emerandine, the "rock moss" covered piece here may somewhat resemble a horse or a pony rearing its head up at the top right, galloping feet or legs formed against the shadows under the "stomach". If you squint, or use your imagination.

Same moss-like appearance, with a grey road seen in the distance behind it. Dioptase can also look a lot like moss with malachite.

It's just a little guy!

A somewhat fish- or dolphin nose shaped bit at the top left, it's an earthier looking rock otherwise, with the brown base seen before already. This one has emerandine and dioptase but it looks even more like mossy patches and miniature plants on the ground here. Colours range from the deeper, cooler or bluer green on the right to lighter, earthy greens in the middle, with a more brownish tone to the "head" of the fish.

There are bits that look further like tiny grass or moss mixed in even on the entire moss rock itself.

Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;P

Pressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.

Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.

https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/

(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)

#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup

#DesertEmerald

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