I love your videos! But there is an error at 9:17. When talking about Fingerite you said it forms through sublimation of volcanic gasses but sublimation is when a solid turns directly into a gas, the opposite would be deposition :)
I don't know what's going on with the Fingerite, but from Wikipedia: "The reverse process of sublimation is deposition or desublimation, in which a substance passes directly from a gas to a solid phase.[2] Sublimation has also been used as a generic term to describe a solid-to-gas transition (sublimation) followed by a gas-to-solid transition (deposition)."
Nah, girls should be able buy their own diamonds or any rocks that they want. This is not in the 80s anymore since woman have rights and can work. Woman get paid higher also on average.
@@jonathanodude6660 With variety of jobs of course comes variety of payments. Unfortunately, woman still are actually paid higher on the same said lower paid job. Now, imagine if they actually have the drive to work to the top level. What a time for a woman to live in today if they actually have the guts to actually earn their money since they have more opportunities than man.
I actually have a blue diamond ring, but it's lab-created. I actually like that better because I got a sparkly stone in my favorite color through SCIENCE!!
@@Vulcano7965 nah not really diamond is pretty common honestly. Blue diamond maybe. It's like saying jade isn't common, I have a big piece of jade from a river for god's sake.
@@thegratercheese8457 No, not at all. Red Diamond isnt the same as regular Diamond which is what is referred to in the video, so there is no r/woooosh here unless you mean for yourself.
how about the one hawkings said is hurtling towards earth? said it right before he died ,, they made him retract it but he said flat out it was coming . then he died.
Diamonds are not rare at all. De Beers, which is a monopoly and as such is banned from doing business in USA, keeps a tight lid on supply. They have billions in storage to keep the prices high. My girlfriend collects cut gemstones and we go to all the jem and mineral conventions in western US. I'd rather have a peridot ear ring than a diamond any day...
They haven't been a monopoly for around 3 decades, and they've never been 'banned' from the US. The US has zero authority to ban businesses. What foolish person told you this?
@@Novarcharesk De Beers executives risk arrest if they visit the US. Gems from De Beers mines are sold in America, but not under the De Beers name. The company cannot openly do business there while charges of price-fixing remain outstanding. There, you've been educated on the facts.
Tanzanite is my favorite mineral, and I actually own a little chunk of it, though mine is light years away from being gem quality, obviously. It still has somewhat of a purplish blue hue to it, which I love.
It's quite pretty, but it's completely a fabrication of Tiffany & Co. Like Hank said in this episode, it's actually just called zoisite, and "Tanzanite" specifically is the name Tiffany gave to the blue variety of zoisite. It's rare, but not exceptionally rare. The claim that there's only one source in the entire world for it is false; blue zoisite is hard to find but there's at least seven different mines that have a decent supply of it. Tiffany specifically applied the name "Tanzanite" to blue zoisite ONLY from their one mine, to make it seem special and super duper rare when it's not. It's a shitty business practice from a very shitty company.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster According to Mindat, Tanzanite is transparent blue zoisite, just like red sapphire is called ruby, just like black tourmaline is called schorl. Any transparent zoisite found in Tanzania is Tanzanite regardless of the color; otherwise it's called zoisite. Ruby in zoisite is called ruby in zoisite even if it is found in Tanzania. Any transparent zoisite can be heat treated to make it blue or bluer; if that's done, it's probably still called Tanzanite regardless, because of its color. All zoisites are rare.
@@MelissaThompson432 Technically ruby isn't "red sapphire" but really just red corundum, as blue corundum is sapphire. The thing is, all blue corundum is known as sapphire no matter where you dig it up from.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster "technically," all corundums, of which there are many variations of color, are referred to as sapphire, apart from rubies. Including pink sapphire. The term "ruby" is semantics. Otherwise there would be yellow, orange, and green _rubies,_ rather than yellow, orange, and green _sapphires._ Unless it has a different mineral content, blue tanzanite can't be distinguished from gem quality zoisite that is blue. In fact, most blue tanzanite from Tanzania that is sold is blue because it's heat treated; it may come out of the ground brown.
@@MelissaThompson432 All sapphire is corundum, but not all corundum is sapphire. Only gemstone corundum is sapphire. But I guess that's kind of obvious, as we're not talking about non-gemstone minerals.
@@googleeatsdicks They destroy them because their value as industrial diamond dust / grit / whatever that they could sell today would be more profitable than eating the costs of security and storage for years while the diamonds sit around in a box on a shelf not being sold.
DeBeers and the other diamond companies hoard the gem quality diamonds for future sale. They use low quality industrial diamonds for industrial purposes. Remember, most diamonds are not gem quality. For diamond knives, lab grown diamonds would be better since they have fewer imperfections, and they’re not controlled by diamond cartels. My school had an electron microscopy lab, and they had a diamond knife for cutting thin sections (less than a micron thick) on the microtome. It’s not as exciting as it sounds. It’s really just a really sharp diamond wedge 4mm long mounted in a block. Diamonds would be useless for a regular knife because they don’t get big enough, they’re too costly to machine, and they break very easily. A single fragment of grit in any of our specimens would have chipped and ruined the lab’s diamond knife. I used glass knives because I didn’t want to risk it.
Dude they don’t destroy gem quality diamonds. It was back in the good old industrial revolution, diamonds were actually quite cheap and not connected to wedding rings. Then diamond mines formed something very similar to OPEC for diamonds, where they agree to set quotas and store any surplus. Also, they launched arguably one of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time, changing diamonds from being something which was just an odd, hard rock that could look pretty to being permanently linked to marriage, something that is almost as common as birth and death. The saying “a diamond is forever”? That was part of that campaign. When you really think about it, you can’t help but be impressed, these guys managed to take an odd type of rock that was somewhat uncommon, and make it worth more than gold, inextricably link it to marriage, and do all of this in less than a lifetime.
Thank you for this, I'm a geologist's daughter, and haven't seen such an awesome geology-oriented presentation in 30 years or so. With the added plus of magnificent geology puns in the comments. Thanks!!!!
They're also behind the existence and pervasiveness of engagement rings in the U.S. They wanted to sell more diamonds, so they put out an ad campaign suggesting that guys buy their girlfriends diamond rings when they propose. And now everyone thinks it's mandatory. Sigh....
Oh a cool part of this crystal is you can make it at your house. You need some basic household products, mix them together at high heat, make sure to release gases and not to breathe in such gases, then cool it down in a freezer.
I'm disappointed red beryl and benitoite did not come up. Both are beautiful and single source rare gems that are pretty much exhausted in nature. And both are really cool for many reasons.
Thanks, yeah, being a Canadian I have to give a big thumbs up for both of those too...! And being fond of fossils ... I too really like ammolite... I'm just sorry it has to be coated for best durability. Really cool single source gem though!
The video seems to have an emphasis on not only rare minerals, but diverse and rare geological and geochemical conditions (see 10:33), so that's likely why it didn't list only rare gemstones...there's only so much room on a short list of 6 minerals.
Geology Professor: Today we are exploring this outcropping of gems and minerals - for tomorrow's paper! TA: Hey, Professor! What's this!? *Rubble In Palm* Geology Prof.: That's "Leverite" my boi. TA: Leverite? What's that? Geology Prof.: Yes! Exactly how it sounds! Leave-her-right-there!
I just want to take a moment and appreciate SciShow and Hank Green. My anxiety was spiking, and the show I was watching to "wind down" was absolutely not doing that, ao I just hopped on over to some minerals and now I'm so relaxed. Thanks Hank, I appreciate you and all the work you and your tea does. Man, science is cool.
SciShow @ 9:18 you say sublimation is changing from a gas to a solid but that's not true. It's changing from a solid to a gas. The term you're looking for is deposition
Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
But they're still not as strong as gemstones with no cracks or fissures. Gemstones with glass fillinv are stronger than the same brittle gemstone with cracks and fissures
yep! No such thing as diamond engagement ring till DeBeers robbed Africa of it's diamonds. It's all a marketing ploy to sell you a NOT rare, cheap sparklies for Thousands of dollars!! It has worked quite well!
I'm a woman and I've never understood the appeal of diamonds. I mean okay it's sparkly but it's just a rock. Give me something with more substance. A photo of my wife or something that reminds me of her would be more meaningful even if it cost $0.50 out of a plastic egg surprise machine.
I love fancy rocks. Standing amid a geological museum's mineral collection can literally move me to tears over how mindblowingly gorgeous and complex all this is, which is a feat because most of the time I'm entirely dead inside. In most cases, I much prefer uncut minerals though. Show me a collection of emerald crystals in-situ any day over the clean-cut pieces that may as well just be coloured glass.
I always wondered why glass armor had the highest light armor rating in Morrowind (and other TES games, if memory serves.) And why TF is it bright green? Is that the color of an added alloy that gives it strength?
Moldavite would've been another great mineral for the list. It was formed by a meteorite impact 15 million years ago. Although probably not as rare as these gems, it's a rare occurrence to say the least.
There are artificial versions that are really pretty too, even "alexandrite" glass (iirc neodymium gas infused) of which there's everything from beads to figurines. Doing a TH-cam search for "neodymium glass" or "alexandrite glass" should show a lot of pretty color shifts.
I have an alexandrute rung that is nearly 50 years old and even though the stone is not genuine it is still beautiful. I don't like the ones I've seen in recent years, when I've been able to find them. Most people who see my ring think the stone is an amethyst & they've never heard if alexandrites.
@Shawnaldo75 That doesn't disprove the fact that minerals aren't rocks. Rocks are a composition of (multiple) minerals. Only under rare circumstances you get a rock with >90% made out of only one mineral (e.g. Quartzite, Dunite). But then there still are other minerals in these rocks. Minerals are not a specific type of rock, that's BS! It's like stating one sheep is only a specific kind of herd.
I used to buy my girlfriend a matching set of earrings, tennis bracelet and necklace of a given gemstone/black pearls that kind of thing. One year I saw some Tanzanite and went online to see what it cost... Never mind.
My wife insisted on a diamond for her wedding ring. Myself knowing how common and extremely overpriced white stones are I went with a 1 carat blue diamond. Far more rare and beautiful. It matches our relationship better. 1 in a million.
@@comradeofthebalance3147 Just take your time young man. My story of love is unique. And yours will be too if you are patient. I knew my wife for 15 years before we started a serious relationship. We have now been together 12 years with 2 amazing children. Living the American dream in the suburbs. You can't rush a perfect thing. That is where people tend to go wrong.
My first gift from my now husband of 22 years, was a tanzanite and diamond ring (not lab created). After we married he bought the matching necklace for our 1st anniversary. Since then, besides other jewelry (I’m a Taurus ;), he gave me a lovely alexandrite (lab created) later mounted into a pearl enhancer pendant (college graduation gift). For our 15th anniversary was a 1.25 ct. black diamond solitaire he mounted in my grandmothers old wedding band and 0.75 cts each- black diamond earrings (lab created). For our 20th anniversary a 1.25-ish ct. blue-green diamond solitaire (lab created). My favorite part is that he knows I’d prefer solitaires so that I can always change my “ring” and studs with enhancers, especially antique ones, we buy when off exploring some other city or spending the afternoon perusing our local dealers :). The fact that some are lab created makes me even more happy knowing that they weren’t apart of someone else’s suffering and they are better quality than most :).
Love your channel and love this video! In the quest for ever accurate information, you made a small mistake when talking about the Fingerite. The process by which gas turns directly into a solid is "Deposition" not sublimation. Sublimation is the process of a solid turning directly into gas.
PancakeMixNZL Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
My favourite ring is a silver band in the shape of a branch, with a moonstone embedded in it and it is a symbol of my marriage to my best friend. Simple, but priceless.
Mine is my natural green sapphire ring... My son's birthstone, in his then favorite color. It has one little speck of brown in it... and I love it.... I had it handmade on etsy....
Let's be honest here, out of all the people over at Scishow as great as they are, Hank DEFINITELY has the best taste in style. That shirt is pure flames.
Erik Mänd Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
You have no idea how long I’ve been searching for info on lesser known minerals, bridgemanite I have heard of and know the story, but hazemanite is a new and interesting one to me. Thanks so very much for all the detailed info on the cool crystals!
I used to live in a town right next to mono lake. It was an extremely salty lake. There were ice pillars just everywhere. I mean the lake was so salty it could be considered saltier than a 12 year old CoD player. It is a great vocation area. It is near mammoth mountain, a famous ghost town, and some other really cool things.
@SciShow correction at 9:15, the chemistry term for a gas turning directly into a solid, skipping the liquid stage is known at deposition. Sublimation is when a solid turns directly into a gas.
You should have imcluded Benitonite: Benitoite occurs in a number of isolated locations globally, but gemstone quality material has only been found in California at the Benito Gem Mine where it was first discovered. It has been correctly identified in Montana, Arkansas, Japan, and Australia although they formed under slightly different conditions and only grow large enough to be considered an accessory mineral. In 1985 benitoite was named as the official state gem of California.[7][8]
Not all Tanzanite shows pleochroism. Most of the time it's the brown, reddish brown and purple/ lavender crystals that get heat treated. MoreGems TH-cam channel is awesome if you enjoy watching rough be cut into 💎. He has a video where he heat treats a brown Tanzanite and cuts 2 beautiful blue gems.
And if you want to see some incredibly rare crystals, you become a chemist. I've produced crystals of some very weird compounds and sometimes you only get a single on ever. And then you get to shoot x-Rays at them! :D
The most likely explanation: we usually go by last names. The immature explanation: Mineral in some place called Cummington: Someone named Finger: Hold my beer.
There's also hiddenite, which up until quite recently was only found in Alexander County, North Carolina. There's even an unincorporated community/census-designated place there called Hiddenite.
Tanzanite is probably my second favorite mineral. Close second to emerald, just gotta love the green color and how it's mined in my home state, North Carolina.
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I propose an update to the pun. "Geology Mine-RULES!"
Liked just for the joke , never heard that one hah and what a delivery from old Hank the genius
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Your definition of sublimation wasn’t correct. You were looking for deposition.
I love your videos! But there is an error at 9:17. When talking about Fingerite you said it forms through sublimation of volcanic gasses but sublimation is when a solid turns directly into a gas, the opposite would be deposition :)
Samantha Corona Thank you! I was questioning myself for moment there =s
@@amy7189 I too had a moment of mental crisis :P
+1
In my high school physics classes, I learned that sublimation could also name the inverse process (although resublimation was used too)
I don't know what's going on with the Fingerite, but from Wikipedia: "The reverse process of sublimation is deposition or desublimation, in which a substance passes directly from a gas to a solid phase.[2] Sublimation has also been used as a generic term to describe a solid-to-gas transition (sublimation) followed by a gas-to-solid transition (deposition)."
When you show this video to your girl, so she doesn't want a diamond engagement ring.
But it backfires.
So now you have to climb an active volcano.
And when your girl showers there goes the engagement ring....
Why not finger-ite
Nah, girls should be able buy their own diamonds or any rocks that they want. This is not in the 80s anymore since woman have rights and can work. Woman get paid higher also on average.
@@edwinkharismaprawira7607 girls usually take lower paid jobs so they arent paid higher actually
@@jonathanodude6660 With variety of jobs of course comes variety of payments. Unfortunately, woman still are actually paid higher on the same said lower paid job. Now, imagine if they actually have the drive to work to the top level. What a time for a woman to live in today if they actually have the guts to actually earn their money since they have more opportunities than man.
I actually have a blue diamond ring, but it's lab-created. I actually like that better because I got a sparkly stone in my favorite color through SCIENCE!!
Michelle Jirak It's also much more eco-friendly.
You need to move a few tons of rocks (I think ~50t) for one carate of natural occuring diamond.
@@Vulcano7965 nah not really diamond is pretty common honestly. Blue diamond maybe. It's like saying jade isn't common, I have a big piece of jade from a river for god's sake.
For SCIENCE!
Cryokenesis?
Nice! My wife's wedding ring's stone is a conflict free lab created sapphire, and it's stunning.
"Here's 6 gems much rarer and cooler than diamonds!"
"number 1: diamonds"
Hahahaaa....
Well actually red diamonds are rarer than your average Diamond 😉.
ooooneeee
r/wooooosh I guess
@@thegratercheese8457 No, not at all. Red Diamond isnt the same as regular Diamond which is what is referred to in the video, so there is no r/woooosh here unless you mean for yourself.
Specifically, Red Diamond.
as a geology major, i thank you for making this. rocks dont get enough attention
They're minerals, Marie.
true dat
Just don’t lick them too much ;)
But they sure make you 'Rock' hard...!!!
how about the one hawkings said is hurtling towards earth? said it right before he died ,, they made him retract it but he said flat out it was coming . then he died.
rare gems always make me sedimental
Take my like and go away
Ha. Jokes
Aww,that's gneiss..
BOOOO! 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎 your family is ashamed of you no need to ask them they'll agree.
Diamonds are not rare at all. De Beers, which is a monopoly and as such is banned from doing business in USA, keeps a tight lid on supply. They have billions in storage to keep the prices high.
My girlfriend collects cut gemstones and we go to all the jem and mineral conventions in western US. I'd rather have a peridot ear ring than a diamond any day...
Most black diamonds for sale in jewelry stores are just heavily included stones that are treated to be black.
They haven't been a monopoly for around 3 decades, and they've never been 'banned' from the US. The US has zero authority to ban businesses. What foolish person told you this?
@@Novarcharesk
De Beers executives risk arrest if they visit the US. Gems from De Beers mines are sold in America, but not under the De Beers name. The company cannot openly do business there while charges of price-fixing remain outstanding.
There, you've been educated on the facts.
@@Novarcharesk they can legally break up monopolies. That's why debeers is based out of London
Legally dismantling businesses I don't like is okay, because I don't like them.
10:30
“...it will just dissolve😢”
Hank sometimes puts so much emotion into his lines that it makes my heart melt
This video is worth your time, I Pumice.
I just love how flabergasted Hank gets when talking about how Fingerite got it's name lol
Well, it does have a better ring to it than Hanktite or Greeneite
Cummingtonite has a better name.
tiddies
Kid named Finger:
Like how do you get your last name to be finger 💀💀🤦♂️
Tanzanite is my favorite mineral, and I actually own a little chunk of it, though mine is light years away from being gem quality, obviously. It still has somewhat of a purplish blue hue to it, which I love.
It's quite pretty, but it's completely a fabrication of Tiffany & Co. Like Hank said in this episode, it's actually just called zoisite, and "Tanzanite" specifically is the name Tiffany gave to the blue variety of zoisite. It's rare, but not exceptionally rare. The claim that there's only one source in the entire world for it is false; blue zoisite is hard to find but there's at least seven different mines that have a decent supply of it. Tiffany specifically applied the name "Tanzanite" to blue zoisite ONLY from their one mine, to make it seem special and super duper rare when it's not. It's a shitty business practice from a very shitty company.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster
According to Mindat, Tanzanite is transparent blue zoisite, just like red sapphire is called ruby, just like black tourmaline is called schorl. Any transparent zoisite found in Tanzania is Tanzanite regardless of the color; otherwise it's called zoisite. Ruby in zoisite is called ruby in zoisite even if it is found in Tanzania.
Any transparent zoisite can be heat treated to make it blue or bluer; if that's done, it's probably still called Tanzanite regardless, because of its color. All zoisites are rare.
@@MelissaThompson432 Technically ruby isn't "red sapphire" but really just red corundum, as blue corundum is sapphire. The thing is, all blue corundum is known as sapphire no matter where you dig it up from.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster "technically," all corundums, of which there are many variations of color, are referred to as sapphire, apart from rubies.
Including pink sapphire.
The term "ruby" is semantics. Otherwise there would be yellow, orange, and green _rubies,_ rather than yellow, orange, and green _sapphires._
Unless it has a different mineral content, blue tanzanite can't be distinguished from gem quality zoisite that is blue. In fact, most blue tanzanite from Tanzania that is sold is blue because it's heat treated; it may come out of the ground brown.
@@MelissaThompson432 All sapphire is corundum, but not all corundum is sapphire. Only gemstone corundum is sapphire. But I guess that's kind of obvious, as we're not talking about non-gemstone minerals.
I live in El Salvador. Now I know what I'm going to do for vacations.
Death by fumarole suffocation?
I live right next to Izalco Volcano
Vamonos
The value of consumer diamonds is arbitrarily heightened by corporations like debeers who actually destroy diamonds to control global supply
Wait they destroy it? I just assumed it was stockpiled for artificial rarity not actively destroyed.
@@googleeatsdicks They destroy them because their value as industrial diamond dust / grit / whatever that they could sell today would be more profitable than eating the costs of security and storage for years while the diamonds sit around in a box on a shelf not being sold.
@AlexisBubba15 and how brital it will be
DeBeers and the other diamond companies hoard the gem quality diamonds for future sale. They use low quality industrial diamonds for industrial purposes. Remember, most diamonds are not gem quality.
For diamond knives, lab grown diamonds would be better since they have fewer imperfections, and they’re not controlled by diamond cartels. My school had an electron microscopy lab, and they had a diamond knife for cutting thin sections (less than a micron thick) on the microtome. It’s not as exciting as it sounds. It’s really just a really sharp diamond wedge 4mm long mounted in a block. Diamonds would be useless for a regular knife because they don’t get big enough, they’re too costly to machine, and they break very easily. A single fragment of grit in any of our specimens would have chipped and ruined the lab’s diamond knife. I used glass knives because I didn’t want to risk it.
Dude they don’t destroy gem quality diamonds. It was back in the good old industrial revolution, diamonds were actually quite cheap and not connected to wedding rings. Then diamond mines formed something very similar to OPEC for diamonds, where they agree to set quotas and store any surplus. Also, they launched arguably one of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time, changing diamonds from being something which was just an odd, hard rock that could look pretty to being permanently linked to marriage, something that is almost as common as birth and death. The saying “a diamond is forever”? That was part of that campaign. When you really think about it, you can’t help but be impressed, these guys managed to take an odd type of rock that was somewhat uncommon, and make it worth more than gold, inextricably link it to marriage, and do all of this in less than a lifetime.
Thank you for this, I'm a geologist's daughter, and haven't seen such an awesome geology-oriented presentation in 30 years or so. With the added plus of magnificent geology puns in the comments. Thanks!!!!
1:27 **COUGH** **De Beers** **cough-cough**
They're also behind the existence and pervasiveness of engagement rings in the U.S. They wanted to sell more diamonds, so they put out an ad campaign suggesting that guys buy their girlfriends diamond rings when they propose. And now everyone thinks it's mandatory. Sigh....
superdupergrover they finger right.
Nah, red diamonds are caused by Sith Lords making them bleed.
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ah, a man of culture!
Someone get this man a like
Ah, Ichnusaite. My favorite character from Steven Universe
I'm from ichnussa!
how you know schler?
I've had a vial of rose quartz crystals sitting on my shelf for years.
wait, there are?
@@emilandreasson9670 no, it was a joke
6:52 fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger
Lol I get it
My favorite rock is Dwayne Johnson.
Mine is Havel
lol
mine is the one I live under
Mine is Iraq
How about Steve Austin
I've heard there's a much rarer gemstone called crystal myth, but my father ddn't really wanna talk about it
Good news, you can make them yourself !
Oh a cool part of this crystal is you can make it at your house.
You need some basic household products, mix them together at high heat, make sure to release gases and not to breathe in such gases, then cool it down in a freezer.
My dad proposed to my sister with a ring that had a myth crystal. It was the most beyutiefle ting I evr seen.
That cause it a myth
Not that rare where I'm from. Even broke people have it.
I'm disappointed red beryl and benitoite did not come up.
Both are beautiful and single source rare gems that are pretty much exhausted in nature.
And both are really cool for many reasons.
24emerald Good point. That is *wacke.* I'm fond of Poudretteite and Ammolite, myself.
Thanks, yeah, being a Canadian I have to give a big thumbs up for both of those too...!
And being fond of fossils ... I too really like ammolite... I'm just sorry it has to be coated for best durability. Really cool single source gem though!
@Paul ... ur right, ... that is wack!!!! Considering the title
@@24emerald I have one of those very pretty Canadian ammonites. They are very cool.
The video seems to have an emphasis on not only rare minerals, but diverse and rare geological and geochemical conditions (see 10:33), so that's likely why it didn't list only rare gemstones...there's only so much room on a short list of 6 minerals.
Geology Professor: Today we are exploring this outcropping of gems and minerals - for tomorrow's paper!
TA: Hey, Professor! What's this!? *Rubble In Palm*
Geology Prof.: That's "Leverite" my boi.
TA: Leverite? What's that?
Geology Prof.: Yes! Exactly how it sounds! Leave-her-right-there!
I know muscle Hank can crush all of them like he crushes diamonds
Diamonds are very brittle, actually, you too can crush them
Also, they burn!
@@proto3139 They burn because they're made of pure carbon. Without any bonds with hydrogen or oxygen, they're technically inorganic.
"...don't live anywhere the rare minerals are, okay?"
Sardinians: _Pikachu face_
moosemaimer, Tanzanians, too!
moosemaimer 😂😂😂😂🤟🏻 greetings from sardinia
laughs in salvadorian
"science rocks"
father passing by: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
geology rocks
Christ Marie, they're minerals
I'm sure mine would laugh too, "IF I HAD ONE!!!'
@@MaxBrix bingewatching youtube till 3am does that to ya i guess xD
I just want to take a moment and appreciate SciShow and Hank Green. My anxiety was spiking, and the show I was watching to "wind down" was absolutely not doing that, ao I just hopped on over to some minerals and now I'm so relaxed. Thanks Hank, I appreciate you and all the work you and your tea does. Man, science is cool.
Number 1 is Minecraft emeralds, right?
Villagers throwing them away like coal
I'm literally playing Minecraft right now as I'm watching this
Villagers be like: 20 emeralds for an iron shovel, but I’m also giving emeralds for like 5 wheat
@InterNaut-115 efficiency is easy to get, you should have traded for mending
#1 Stalinium
Heat treating blue zoisite should be a crime.
Yesss! This! Like, it took how many millions of years to form, and you want to change the color?! Heck no…
@@sierradanni1720 Most unheated blue Zoisite isn’t very pretty, no one would buy it unfortunately.
@@dnwr5224 I mean, that's fair... but it's still kinda sad...
"Nobody wants to climb around on an active volcano"
Me: *laughs in Salvadorean*
You will be missed.
There was a guy who just fell into a volcano, and his wife/fiancé rescued him. This just happened like a week ago from this comment.
@@clxwncrxwn He was searching for that sweet, sweet fingerite, I presume!
True ajajaja climbing volcanoes is one of the most practiced hobbies here on El Salvador
😂
I love videos about gems and minerals! We need sci show geology!
You: These 6 gems are really rare.
Thanos: Hold my beer!!
SciShow @ 9:18 you say sublimation is changing from a gas to a solid but that's not true. It's changing from a solid to a gas.
The term you're looking for is deposition
the correct term is Deposition
Chem major here: sublimation can mean solid to gas AND gas to solid. It goes both ways.
Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
6:53 Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger
But they're still not as strong as gemstones with no cracks or fissures. Gemstones with glass fillinv are stronger than the same brittle gemstone with cracks and fissures
I get it
@LILY TEMPORAL I get it too. You reference a line from an episode
Pink Diamond is Australian... righto.
And it doesn't even try to kill you. Probably.
@@justingould2020 getting to the mine without being slaughtered by the wildlife is a different story lol
Steven Universe would be a lot more interesting if Pink Diamond was an Aussie lmao
your profile picture is amazing my friend
@@XamiNaxamis Omg that would be so amazing
What about my girlfriend? She was the coolest and rarest gem I ever found!❤️
Unacceptable. Get a grip.
Is This a real human being
This is probably the first TH-cam comment that talks about a relationship and isn’t depressing
This is basically: You wasted 10k for a stupid ring that is basically worthless and isn't rare at all.
You can thank the Luxemburg gang for artificially raising the prices of diamonds.
yep! No such thing as diamond engagement ring till DeBeers robbed Africa of it's diamonds. It's all a marketing ploy to sell you a NOT rare, cheap sparklies for Thousands of dollars!! It has worked quite well!
@Rulya Ard Mhacha Farley This is just my opinion. I don't like being scammed for a stupid rock that could lead to me being homeless.
Anyone that spends more than 1K on a ring should seek a financial advisor
I'm a woman and I've never understood the appeal of diamonds. I mean okay it's sparkly but it's just a rock.
Give me something with more substance. A photo of my wife or something that reminds me of her would be more meaningful even if it cost $0.50 out of a plastic egg surprise machine.
I love fancy rocks. Standing amid a geological museum's mineral collection can literally move me to tears over how mindblowingly gorgeous and complex all this is, which is a feat because most of the time I'm entirely dead inside. In most cases, I much prefer uncut minerals though. Show me a collection of emerald crystals in-situ any day over the clean-cut pieces that may as well just be coloured glass.
They might be rarer, but you’re still not able to craft tools and armor with them.
How to properly clean your metal computer not seen you around as much lately
Mod time
No you put them in empty sockets to imbue equipment with magic properties.
I always wondered why glass armor had the highest light armor rating in Morrowind (and other TES games, if memory serves.) And why TF is it bright green? Is that the color of an added alloy that gives it strength?
@@pickles3128 uH-
Moldavite would've been another great mineral for the list. It was formed by a meteorite impact 15 million years ago. Although probably not as rare as these gems, it's a rare occurrence to say the least.
Yea, diamonds are over inflated under supplied, abundant hard rocks anyway.
And can simply be manufactured...
“Name the three types of rock: classic, punk, and hard.”
-shamelessly stolen from a favorite conic strip :)
I love your videos btw.
I ❤️ nerds.
alexandrite is still the coolest gemstone imo
There are artificial versions that are really pretty too, even "alexandrite" glass (iirc neodymium gas infused) of which there's everything from beads to figurines. Doing a TH-cam search for "neodymium glass" or "alexandrite glass" should show a lot of pretty color shifts.
Wrote the same thing above. Totally agree.
I have an alexandrute rung that is nearly 50 years old and even though the stone is not genuine it is still beautiful. I don't like the ones I've seen in recent years, when I've been able to find them. Most people who see my ring think the stone is an amethyst & they've never heard if alexandrites.
Opal is the best
It's also extremely rare, and when you do find a source of it, it's absurdly labor intensive to mine out of the ground.
My favorite mineral is vivianite, a deep green phosphate mineral that sometimes occurs in shell fossils, turning them a gemmy green 🙂
It also used to be the basis for Prussian blue!
Jesus Christ, Marie! They aren't rocks, they're minerals!
beat me to it haha
I thought your username is "octoling", I would have splattered you.
@Shawnaldo75 it's a reference to Breaking Bad haha
Shawnaldo75 No, rocks are made out of minerals.
single-mineral rocks aren't too common.
@Shawnaldo75 That doesn't disprove the fact that minerals aren't rocks.
Rocks are a composition of (multiple) minerals. Only under rare circumstances you get a rock with >90% made out of only one mineral (e.g. Quartzite, Dunite).
But then there still are other minerals in these rocks.
Minerals are not a specific type of rock, that's BS!
It's like stating one sheep is only a specific kind of herd.
I used to buy my girlfriend a matching set of earrings, tennis bracelet and necklace of a given gemstone/black pearls that kind of thing. One year I saw some Tanzanite and went online to see what it cost...
Never mind.
My wife insisted on a diamond for her wedding ring. Myself knowing how common and extremely overpriced white stones are I went with a 1 carat blue diamond. Far more rare and beautiful. It matches our relationship better. 1 in a million.
Nice
Crawl IntoTheCalm Yo that somewhat (jokingly) sounds like we single noobs have very little chance
@@comradeofthebalance3147
Just take your time young man. My story of love is unique. And yours will be too if you are patient.
I knew my wife for 15 years before we started a serious relationship. We have now been together 12 years with 2 amazing children. Living the American dream in the suburbs.
You can't rush a perfect thing. That is where people tend to go wrong.
Crawl IntoTheCalm Regards to your family, good sir.
Blue zoisite is my favorite gemstone. So underrated yet so pretty!
Green zoisite . Cut, matches the best Columbian Emerald I've ever seen..
Diamonds are overrated, to be honest.
They are mechanically useful, that's about it.
@@kindlin Agreed, it is one strong rock, but jewelry companies withheld the supply to make it seem 'rare and priceless' to inflated the cost.
Not to mention that they marketed it so good that everyone now thinks they are a necessity for every engagement.
De Beers: "Inflating and overvaluing a shiny rock since 1888!"
Slowly turning back into graphite :s
My first gift from my now husband of 22 years, was a tanzanite and diamond ring (not lab created). After we married he bought the matching necklace for our 1st anniversary. Since then, besides other jewelry (I’m a Taurus ;), he gave me a lovely alexandrite (lab created) later mounted into a pearl enhancer pendant (college graduation gift). For our 15th anniversary was a 1.25 ct. black diamond solitaire he mounted in my grandmothers old wedding band and 0.75 cts each- black diamond earrings (lab created). For our 20th anniversary a 1.25-ish ct. blue-green diamond solitaire (lab created). My favorite part is that he knows I’d prefer solitaires so that I can always change my “ring” and studs with enhancers, especially antique ones, we buy when off exploring some other city or spending the afternoon perusing our local dealers :). The fact that some are lab created makes me even more happy knowing that they weren’t apart of someone else’s suffering and they are better quality than most :).
This topic was awesome, would like to see more like it
2:27 is this why Pink Diamond’s gem is upside down? Haha
Love your channel and love this video! In the quest for ever accurate information, you made a small mistake when talking about the Fingerite. The process by which gas turns directly into a solid is "Deposition" not sublimation. Sublimation is the process of a solid turning directly into gas.
PancakeMixNZL Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
My favourite ring is a silver band in the shape of a branch, with a moonstone embedded in it and it is a symbol of my marriage to my best friend. Simple, but priceless.
Mine is my natural green sapphire ring... My son's birthstone, in his then favorite color. It has one little speck of brown in it... and I love it.... I had it handmade on etsy....
Sardinia rocks! No, seriously, it's basically just rocks, i was born there so trust me, i know!
Ha, Jokes!
@@bs-vo1ii ok
Let's be honest here, out of all the people over at Scishow as great as they are, Hank DEFINITELY has the best taste in style. That shirt is pure flames.
Sublimation is the opposite of what you described: turning straight into a gas from a solid. The term you were looking for is deposition.
Erik Mänd Summarizing previous scriptwriter’s response: the original academic paper referred to the substance as sublimate (noun), referring to the definition that compounds turned into gas then turned into compounds
Its both
You have no idea how long I’ve been searching for info on lesser known minerals, bridgemanite I have heard of and know the story, but hazemanite is a new and interesting one to me. Thanks so very much for all the detailed info on the cool crystals!
2:06 _"Pink Light"_
*[ T R I G G E R E D ]*
I love the passive aggressiveness of THEY ARENT SPOKEN ABOUT. AT ALL.
This video reminded me that i have a mineralogy examn i have to study for 😭
Smoothest Ad transition I’ve seen on this channel yet, good on you Mr Green
THIS CHANNEL ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
No.
It's seriously comforting to me to watch you speak about something so unrelateable so excitedly :)
I adored this. Thank you so much for it.
Thanks for the shoutout on the camera course. I'm already a paid subscriber to SkillShare and I've been wondering how cameras work.
As a mineral and fossil collector, I really really appreciate this. ❤
I used to live in a town right next to mono lake. It was an extremely salty lake. There were ice pillars just everywhere. I mean the lake was so salty it could be considered saltier than a 12 year old CoD player. It is a great vocation area. It is near mammoth mountain, a famous ghost town, and some other really cool things.
Diamonds: well, well at least they're not unbreakable like me
Diamonds : CONGRATULATIONS! You wasted 90% of your money for a ring with a worthless stone and now are broke.
Diamonds actually chip. So, definitely breakable. They're just hard to scratch.
@@Cypresssina Do you get the reference?
@SciShow correction at 9:15, the chemistry term for a gas turning directly into a solid, skipping the liquid stage is known at deposition. Sublimation is when a solid turns directly into a gas.
We just spent so much money at the gem and mineral show.
Nice presentation and quality information. Being a tanzanite dealer I found it very interesting.
You should have imcluded Benitonite:
Benitoite occurs in a number of isolated locations globally, but gemstone quality material has only been found in California at the Benito Gem Mine where it was first discovered. It has been correctly identified in Montana, Arkansas, Japan, and Australia although they formed under slightly different conditions and only grow large enough to be considered an accessory mineral. In 1985 benitoite was named as the official state gem of California.[7][8]
Hank, I feel like you should've mentioned hazenite's namesake, Dr. Robert Hazen. The man's a genius, coming up with the theory of mineral evolution.
"Hey we found this super rare gem that changes colour depending on how you look at it"
"Cool, let's heat it up so it's just blue"
I got to see some raw tanzanite while in Tanzania. It quickly became my favorite.
Not all Tanzanite shows pleochroism. Most of the time it's the brown, reddish brown and purple/ lavender crystals that get heat treated. MoreGems TH-cam channel is awesome if you enjoy watching rough be cut into 💎. He has a video where he heat treats a brown Tanzanite and cuts 2 beautiful blue gems.
That ad transition was SMOOTH.
And if you want to see some incredibly rare crystals, you become a chemist. I've produced crystals of some very weird compounds and sometimes you only get a single on ever. And then you get to shoot x-Rays at them! :D
This and the Infographics show are my favorite TH-cam channels
Hank is the best
My favorite gemstone is Tanzanite! It’s really pretty and I love the color.
They are playing Minecraft on expert mode
Exclaim-y, excited Hank. Takes me back to that glorious video about the Periodic Table from 2012. Frudge is the best letter of the alphabet.
Why couldn't fingerite be called "Larryite" that sounds a little better.
The most likely explanation: we usually go by last names.
The immature explanation:
Mineral in some place called Cummington:
Someone named Finger: Hold my beer.
This was probably the best ad about skillshare I've seen, i legitimately thought you were praising photographers
Diamonds are only useful in machine tools, nothing else
And its beauty, though that might be stretching the definition of “useful”.
Yeh lol, whetstones, light focusing, and tools, end of story
Prisms?
@@KnakuanaRka They are actually very boring. I'd rather have garnet or emeralds for jewelry.
Really cool video! Very professionally made content that kept my interest.
Sardinia? Reminds me when i beat up the boss of the italian mafia back in 2001 and became the leader of his gang
There's also hiddenite, which up until quite recently was only found in Alexander County, North Carolina. There's even an unincorporated community/census-designated place there called Hiddenite.
Hank: They are rare if found in 5 or fewer places
*me* Like Tanzanite
Hank: Number two, Tanzanite
*looks at my Tanzanite ring* :o
Tanzanite is probably my second favorite mineral.
Close second to emerald, just gotta love the green color and how it's mined in my home state, North Carolina.
Diamonds are for people who fell for the Marketing Hype 😂
My husband asked me if i wanted a dimond or a house i said a house.
Yesss!
Ahaha! "...aren't *cut out* to be gemstones." I dig it ;p
My favorite mineral is gold nuggets...
Golden chicken nuggets that is! :)
facts
My favorite ring is onion...
Wait wasn't chicken a ring at some places? Can I change my answer?
Corundum Cottages have the best stones!-) Snyderite, Red Rainbow Obsidian, and lightning ridge Black Opals!-)
me: got half a pound of star garnet on the counter (can only be found in 2 places) lol
Man, Hank sure does get passionate over minerals.
As of now 76 members of the debeers crime family disliked the video
I love the weird stuff related to people with the last name Finger
Geology rocks? Meh. I think it's *gneiss,* but you really need to know your *schist.*
@Paul Kepshire ... gneiss!
I'm sorry, could you say that agate?
And... for the ultimate minerology joke,..
Cummingtonite.
Massimo O'Kissed OMG, I forgot about that one! Good job!
@@massimookissed1023 only if you fingerite...
When this video first started, I thought I'd somehow clicked on an old SciShow vid - Hank was so enthusiastic, he looked younger than normal!