Today is day 7 of #30DaysWild. During early morning #hedgewatch, my humans met this #butterfly. It's a cinnabar #moth. It is because of the wonderful red colour, named after the #mineral #cinnabar. Our humans are #geologists and like that a lot 
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From my lunch time walk, a #Cinnabar #Moth clinging to a stalk alongside Bawsey Drain (this picture has been rotated 90 degrees to maximize the presence of the moth).
#Photography #Nature #Insects #Entomology #Moths #CinnabarMoth
The cinnabar catapillars have annihilated all the ragwort in my garden now. I panicked and collected most of them into jars and transplanted them onto fresh plants in the park. I hope I did the right thing.
#wildlife #caterpillars #cinnabar #ragwort #bugs #bugstodon
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Just a safety note: CINNABAR is toxic (it's an ore of mercury) -- some of the oldest cases of mecury poisoning were from the use of cinnabar, 5000 years ago. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/love-of-wine-leads-to-chance-discovery-of-widespread-mercury-poisoning-in-copper-age-180979091/ #cinnabar #mercury #toxicity
Smithsonian Magazine · Earliest Evidence of Mercury Poisoning in Humans Found in 5,000-Year-Old Bones
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-iberians-ingested-red-dust-loaded-with-mind-altering-mercury-180983889/ #archaeology #spain #CopperAge #Valencina #mercury #hallucinogen #cinnabar
Smithsonian Magazine · Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
‘none more red’ story of the week…
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury #chalcolithic #cinnabar #acrodynia https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-iberians-ingested-red-dust-loaded-with-mind-altering-mercury-180983889/
Smithsonian Magazine · Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
So I had to go remind myself what #stibnite is because frankly I'm more used to seeing "antimony" still, but...
as much as #sodalite is fun and pretty... listen, it's not chaos. Stibnite is basically chaos in most of its historical uses, iirc!
Also it often co-occurs with things like #realgar, #cinnabar, #orpiment, and #galena... now that's some fun chaos company. Vote Stibnite for chaos!! #MinCup23
You have under an hour left to rally votes for #MinCup23’s second match!
#Quartz had pulled ahead of #Cinnabar by a narrow margin, but it can easily flip again: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-2
Found a new player to join your team? Send them to vote! https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match
Mineral CupRound 1 Match 2 — Mineral CupWill fiery vermillion Cinnabar overcome Quartz’s variety, abundance and rainbow of colors? Which mineral will shine, or crash and burn?
Sharp red cinnabar (HgS) crystals on dolomite with quartz. From Chatian Mine, Hunan, China
You have less than 90 minutes to vote in Round 1 Match 2 of #MinCup23
Will it be #Cinnabar or #Quartz that makes it through to Round 2?
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
Check results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-2
Mineral CupRound 1 Match 2 — Mineral CupIt’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?
#quartz is nice and I'm glad for crystal derived time, but I voted #cinnabar. Quartz is omnipresent, but the trip with single digit aged me and my dad and the guide to Obermoschel was unique. I'm working with quartz for clock signals, have some nice oscillators (Rb Controlled, heated) but my picture shows an old russian low frequency quartz bar I'm didn't come around to use yet. #mincup23 #teamquartz
3 hours left in #MinCup23 Round 1 Match 2:
#Cinnabar currently has a 5 VOTE lead over #Quartz: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
Go forth and persuade new players why your mineral is the best. Only one is continuing to the next round (& the other is cut from #MinCup 2024!): https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
Mineral CupRound 1 Match 2 — Mineral CupIt’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?
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@NadWGab #Cinnabar has the exact same symmetry as #quartz ! They are both trigonal with space group 3(1) 2 1 ( @MineralCup cleverness)
They both lack a center of inversion, and they are both piezoelectric.
One could imagine a heavy-metal tolerant species sporting cinnabar-resonator timepieces.
#MinCup23
Still on the fence between #Quartz and #Cinnabar? Did you know that chert is another name for microcrystalline quartz? So is flint (a variety of chert). Flint gave early humans fire, arrow tips, and other tools, it was the first mineral mined, supposedly.
Does #Link go around looking for cinnabar? Is cinnabar featured in minecraft? Heck no. #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz
Here's a quick fact sheet for match 2 in #MinCup23:
#Cinnabar
HgS
Name: traceable to the Persian zinjifrah likely meaning dragon's blood
Occurrence: low-temperature hydrothermal veins
Neat fact: mined in Neolithic times and used as pigment and to extract mercury
#Quartz
SiO2
Name: possibly of Slavic or German origin (Querklufterz - aren't you glad it got abbreviated)
Occurrence: hydrothermal, igneous and metamorphic rocks, sandstone
Neat fact: piezoelectric
C'mon folks, go to #MineralCup at https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2 and put your vote in for #Quartz! Quartz is the working stiff of #Minerals, the everyman, it's the Joad family of minerals, basically. Sure #cinnabar is pretty, it's splashy, and is an important mercury ore mineral, it's worthy, but can you count on it when the chips are down and you need to build a road, or make a sandcastle? Why do these people hate #sandcastles? That's like hating #kittens. #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz
Mineral CupRound 1 Match 2 — Mineral CupIt’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?
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Cinnabar in Chinese folklore was associated with the Vermilion Bird of the South, and one of the main ingredients of immortality pills in Chinese alchemy (ironically, since it's toxic, and if you eat it you'll get the opposite of immortal...)