Does Sulfur Conduct Electricity? (No…..But Why?)
Sulfur is a nonmetallic chemical element having the symbol S and atomic number 16. It belongs to the oxygen group (Group 16 ) of the periodic table and is one o...
Does Magnesium Conduct Electricity? (Answered)
Magnesium is a chemical element having the symbol Mg and atomic number 12. It belongs to group 2 on the periodic table, sharing many physical and chemical prope...
Can Garnet Go in the Water? (And Sunlight?)
Garnet is a large group of silicate minerals that have the general chemical composition of X3Y2(SiO4)3. Some of the species of garnet are pyrope, almandine, spe...
Can Black Tourmaline Go in the Water? (And Salt Water?)
Tourmaline is a silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements like aluminum, iron, magnesium, etc. It consists of several minerals with simi...
Can Larimar Go in the Water? (And Salt Water?)
Larimar is the tradename of a rare blue variety of pectolite. It is an inosilicate mineral having the chemical formula NaCa2Si3O8(OH). The stone gets its ...
Can Shungite Go in the Water? (Is It Magnetic?)
Shungite is a black, lustrous mineraloid that is made of up to 99% carbon. It was first discovered from a deposit near Shunga Village, in Karelia, Russia, and t...
The Environmental Impact of Polyvinyl Alcohol
PVA, or polyvinyl alcohol, is a synthetic polymer produced from the polymerization of vinyl acetate. This process can be done either in solution or in suspensio...
Can Red Jasper Go in the Water? (And Salt Water?)
Jasper is a kind of cryptocrystalline quartz. It is an opaque, impure variety of silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2), and is usually red in colour due to iron impuri...
Can Apatite Go in the Water? (And Salt Water?)
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals (usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite) that have similar chemical and physical properties. It is often...
Can Black Obsidian Go in the Water? (And in the Sun?)
Obsidian is a volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly, which doesn’t allow atoms to arrange themselves into a crystalline struct...