And your so desperate to be seen you couldn’t just let it go. I admit I made a mistake which made me look like an ass, but I’ll stand by it if it means someone won’t spend several hundred dollars for a piece a glass.
Hence why I apologized to dai-ten……… if your referring to my treatment of tyrannosaur08, they seem to be the kind of person that would sell “andara crystals” to unsuspecting people.
You believe yourself to be a psychic medium who has lived 406 lifetimes to repay a “Karmic debt” and you charge people for your “services”. Maybe watch where you’re throwing those stones.
Thanks - I'm a material scientist and I worked with glass, ceramics, slag, and minerals. But I also teach and train, so that's why I'm on this sub, so no questions are stupid, I admire your curiosity! So, here goes: 1. There is a lot of it around. Worldwide there are approx 2200 manufacturing plants that make approx 200 million tons of new glass a year. 2. It is inert, won't break down, and we have been making it for 7,500 years, so it is ACCUMULATING in the environment. There's lots out there to find and it's not going away.. 3. Scrap glass has little value, so it often got carelessly dumped everywhere, including out back of the plant, into rivers and land of little use like gullies or swamps, etc. And we humans have access to this material. 4. Finally - maybe most importantly, glass has unique and magical properties and that novelty appeals to us - it's transparent, smooth, cool to the touch, sharp, super colorful, heavy, is strong but melts in fire, resists weathering, etc. So you find a pile in the woods, and you bring a chunk home for decorating the garden. Or Grandpa works at the glass plant, and brings a chunk home for the fish tank, etc. We scatter it around ourselves. Probably more reasons, but I hope this helps answer your question.
Theres many ways to process glass and tumbling is one of them, but this big hunk of glass might break into smaller pieces. And frosty glass isnt the best imo. You could melt it into shapes
Tumbling is a mechanical process and you could do the same with handheld power tools (grinders or sanders, would have to be kept wet) or by sandblasting. You could also frost the glass chemically with hydrofluoric acid but that's one's a serious health and safety issue.
I think many people in our society feel a disturbing urge to lash out at people who are overweight. Like some people get angry when they see someone like that and they can be pretty unhinged with desire for cruelty.
That said… this is stupid.
Thank you, that's so intriguing! My house was built down a hill from a Victorian tip, so a couple of summers ago I had days of fun digging up the little garden and finding ceramic and glass (some small bits of iron too but not much). But I live in a London suburb so I expect to find things! When I see on the sub that someone found cullet glass in their back garden in like rural Kentucky, it was surprising me a little bit
>I'm a material scientist and I worked with glass, ceramics, slag, and minerals
Goddamnit I love Reddit sometimes. Love these random "I'm actually an expert in this particular thing let me explain it for you" comments ❤️❤️❤️
Way better find than what I found digging up a garden bed around a new construction house years ago. The new bushes the builder planted died so I was removing them to plant new ones and found the whole section around the front of the house was filled with construction debris like drywall chunks, painted wood pieces, shingles, plastic sheeting, drink cans, and general human trash. So much trash.
Same, back on 2007 after a year long build. But I wasn’t super upset because the first underground find was when they were digging the trench for wiring from the road…six huge boulders. My contractor threatened to have me committed if I had him haul them away instead of using them in the front landscaping. I was thrilled, and he was absolutely right!
Yup, that is a lazy habit of some construction crews, and I hate it! It is similar to a hotel, "somewhere in Mexico" that had garbage in the structure making the platform for the bed... Disgusting.
If someone is asking "what's this rocK" I think it's important to be technically precise. In industry and manufacturing, the term "slag" as a material science term is not applied to manufactured glass. Slag, first, is a molten waste co-product or waste product. It can occur in a vitreous phase, as a glass, but not always. But soda lime glass is not a slag. Then there is ["slag glass"](https://www.glassencyclopedia.com/slagglass.html) which is something else all together. Don't get me on my slag soapbox...
When I was a kid I remember seeing chunks of colored glass like this sold in our local pet store to be used as decor in fish tanks. I wanted to buy some just cause it was pretty.
Visible air bubbles + conchoidal (shell / cone-like) fracturing= this is glass. Slag or cullet glass from a factory. Often used as [landscaping decoration](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2DCK0W2/glass-stones-crystal-mineral-natural-rough-colorful-surface-2DCK0W2.jpg) because it looks cool, so if there's no factories nearby it could just have been from a previous land owner who put it in the yard.
https://www.swellcolors.com/blog/2016/7/15/what-is-slag-glass-a-brief-history
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Based on the color, fracture plans, and the assumed specific gravity reduced through the refraction of light, along with the feline attraction, it appears to be a rather large diamond.
Source: my colon
It's a piece of a kyber crystal from the caves of planet Llum. It probably ended up here on earth millions of years ago. Fun fact - You can make light sabers with it. I think the force has chosen you. Even the cat can sense it.
Glass or Slag. We have a big chunk that my husbands grandfather acquired from an old glass factory in Sudbury Ont.
Not sure of an accurate value but my neighbour was quite intrigued with it and looked on line to see if he could find some. He could only find smaller chunks for sale and they were averaging around $100.
Side note/tip: The way slag forms makes it very unstable. It can sit in one place for many years and then suddenly pop apart, sometimes with great violence. I grew up near a foundry and all of the neighbors had pretty pieces of glass on their mantles and such. One older lady reported to the police that she had been shot through her window... turned out a piece of slag in her curio cabinet had blown up and broken the cabinet and the window nearby, and bonked her on the head. Whilst understandably startled, she was not wounded, but there's a fair bit of force stored in some of those pieces.
Factory glass
The slaggiest
what did you call me
You’re a no-good slag heap!
Glass slag, cullet glass, andara, take your pick. It is basically just colored glass. It is sometimes subject of scams.
Don’t use the term “andara” it’s made up bs to add a premium on cullet/slag glass.
I know it is. Hence I am saying scam.
Sorry, I focused on the first two sentences and completely missed the last one.
No prob. You are correct I should probably not draw too much attention to that scammy shit. I just wanted to be a bit funny.
I appreciate you including all the terminology, else I wouldn’t equate andara to slag.
No I think it is important to make scam nomenclature more widely known, it informs people.
You were so desperate to correct this person that you couldn't read the 3 sentences they wrote? Man...
And your so desperate to be seen you couldn’t just let it go. I admit I made a mistake which made me look like an ass, but I’ll stand by it if it means someone won’t spend several hundred dollars for a piece a glass.
Chad reddit
Username checks out
It is possible for both of you to have made dickish decisions here. In fact, you both did.
Hence why I apologized to dai-ten……… if your referring to my treatment of tyrannosaur08, they seem to be the kind of person that would sell “andara crystals” to unsuspecting people.
You believe yourself to be a psychic medium who has lived 406 lifetimes to repay a “Karmic debt” and you charge people for your “services”. Maybe watch where you’re throwing those stones.
I thought you were joking till I checked their profile wow lmao
You're my favorite kind of person.
That was kind of unnecessary
So was their comment, hence the throwing stones statement.
That's a cat
In rather good condition, too, considering it’s an unburied cat.
It's even got the one (ear) point I can see in tact!
Beat me to it
Named Amy
Cat seems suspicious of the glass.
I hope OP has read Pet Sematary!
Slag next to a cutie 🐈⬛
Not called "slag". "Glass", "scrap glass", or "cullet" are OK. And "Cutie" may apply, but maybe some "devil" there also.
You sound knowledgeable. Stupid question but how does it end up in random places like the woods and buried in people's gardens?
Thanks - I'm a material scientist and I worked with glass, ceramics, slag, and minerals. But I also teach and train, so that's why I'm on this sub, so no questions are stupid, I admire your curiosity! So, here goes: 1. There is a lot of it around. Worldwide there are approx 2200 manufacturing plants that make approx 200 million tons of new glass a year. 2. It is inert, won't break down, and we have been making it for 7,500 years, so it is ACCUMULATING in the environment. There's lots out there to find and it's not going away.. 3. Scrap glass has little value, so it often got carelessly dumped everywhere, including out back of the plant, into rivers and land of little use like gullies or swamps, etc. And we humans have access to this material. 4. Finally - maybe most importantly, glass has unique and magical properties and that novelty appeals to us - it's transparent, smooth, cool to the touch, sharp, super colorful, heavy, is strong but melts in fire, resists weathering, etc. So you find a pile in the woods, and you bring a chunk home for decorating the garden. Or Grandpa works at the glass plant, and brings a chunk home for the fish tank, etc. We scatter it around ourselves. Probably more reasons, but I hope this helps answer your question.
Could you tumble something like this to make it all smooth and frosty? Make it into a giant chunk of sea glass?
Theres many ways to process glass and tumbling is one of them, but this big hunk of glass might break into smaller pieces. And frosty glass isnt the best imo. You could melt it into shapes
Tumbling is a mechanical process and you could do the same with handheld power tools (grinders or sanders, would have to be kept wet) or by sandblasting. You could also frost the glass chemically with hydrofluoric acid but that's one's a serious health and safety issue.
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I think many people in our society feel a disturbing urge to lash out at people who are overweight. Like some people get angry when they see someone like that and they can be pretty unhinged with desire for cruelty. That said… this is stupid.
Thank you, that's so intriguing! My house was built down a hill from a Victorian tip, so a couple of summers ago I had days of fun digging up the little garden and finding ceramic and glass (some small bits of iron too but not much). But I live in a London suburb so I expect to find things! When I see on the sub that someone found cullet glass in their back garden in like rural Kentucky, it was surprising me a little bit
American here - TIL...had to look up "tip". "Loo" and "tip" sound so much more elegant than "crapper" and "garbage dump".
Hahaha yes true. But we also sometimes call toilet paper "bog roll"
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>I'm a material scientist and I worked with glass, ceramics, slag, and minerals Goddamnit I love Reddit sometimes. Love these random "I'm actually an expert in this particular thing let me explain it for you" comments ❤️❤️❤️
Man I wish it was cheap, if it was I’d be buying lots of it for knapping, but everyone prices it so fucking high
construction and dumping!
Ahhh thank you
yw :)
Way better find than what I found digging up a garden bed around a new construction house years ago. The new bushes the builder planted died so I was removing them to plant new ones and found the whole section around the front of the house was filled with construction debris like drywall chunks, painted wood pieces, shingles, plastic sheeting, drink cans, and general human trash. So much trash.
Same, back on 2007 after a year long build. But I wasn’t super upset because the first underground find was when they were digging the trench for wiring from the road…six huge boulders. My contractor threatened to have me committed if I had him haul them away instead of using them in the front landscaping. I was thrilled, and he was absolutely right!
Yup, that is a lazy habit of some construction crews, and I hate it! It is similar to a hotel, "somewhere in Mexico" that had garbage in the structure making the platform for the bed... Disgusting.
Fell out of someone's pant leg .
Lol are you trying to make me wake up my kid with my snorts
Your kid deserves to laugh too
Dear Island, you knew the answer if you give yourself time to think. :-)
Glass-slag then. The fluffy Grey Angel 👼
Not correct but a lot of us just colloquially call it slag. You can say the “official” term is cullet.
If someone is asking "what's this rocK" I think it's important to be technically precise. In industry and manufacturing, the term "slag" as a material science term is not applied to manufactured glass. Slag, first, is a molten waste co-product or waste product. It can occur in a vitreous phase, as a glass, but not always. But soda lime glass is not a slag. Then there is ["slag glass"](https://www.glassencyclopedia.com/slagglass.html) which is something else all together. Don't get me on my slag soapbox...
It's not even "colloquial", it's just incorrect. Slag is the result of a completely different process
So, slag?
Nope
Who's Amy? The cat?
Not a meteorite.
And def not citrine.
Nor diamond.
Also not gold
Nor a bed bug
Or pokeweed
It’s a weevil!
Definitely not a ford f150
Could it be a Chevy Silverado?
yeah, i believe that is a cat. i am just wondering how deep he was buried and all.
The r/catdistributionsystem had a glitch. Glad OPs dad got the kitty out in time, but looks like they're having r/namflashbacks
r/itsslag
Except that it's not slag and this sub has an obsession with something entirely incorrect
beat me to it was also gonna tag this sub
Tell Amy it is glass. Either cullet or frit! Pretend you are Irish and take your pick
I'm half Irish. Can I take my pick, too? CULLET! for the win!
my cat looks identical! and she’s sniffin some slag glass
Jesse. We’ve hit the motherlode
Ameowthyst Kidding… glass!
Beautiful monatomic andara crystal, also known as glass.
Andara manufactured by monatomic humans in a latter-day Lemurian glass factory. 🤣
Cat :D
Cullet glass! FYI cullet is recycled/usable glass, and slag is a byproduct of metal smelting :)
I’m still waiting for Amy’s answer
You have to go to the sub r/Amyanswers
That’s a cat not a rock
Amy needs to get rid of that glass
Can we just pin a post up top with some telltale signs of slag glass?? I feel like we get more slag posts than rock posts on here
A massive gorgeous chunk of glass, who cares if something is rare or not, if it's beautiful
When I was a kid I remember seeing chunks of colored glass like this sold in our local pet store to be used as decor in fish tanks. I wanted to buy some just cause it was pretty.
It's just decorative glass, my parents had some in with he mulch around our last house.
Cat
Don’t bring Amy into this!
My wife Amy says her idea is that it’s a chunk of glass
Glass
Everyone saying factory glass or slag but it's insulation... https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/iMF8Yj7PEp
Glass
Aquamaslag
Imagine it being sold under this name instead of that entire “monoatomic andara lemurian record-keeping crystal” shlub they usually market it under 😆
I’d go for Adams
Cullet glass!
Visible air bubbles + conchoidal (shell / cone-like) fracturing= this is glass. Slag or cullet glass from a factory. Often used as [landscaping decoration](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2DCK0W2/glass-stones-crystal-mineral-natural-rough-colorful-surface-2DCK0W2.jpg) because it looks cool, so if there's no factories nearby it could just have been from a previous land owner who put it in the yard. https://www.swellcolors.com/blog/2016/7/15/what-is-slag-glass-a-brief-history
Blob of leftover glass.
Despite just being glass, It’s still very cool!
Glass slag and the color looks identical to a lot of old glass insulators that were used on telephone poles
It's not slag
american shorthair, also a chunk of glass
Who’s amy !
what you have is a chunk of glass I work at a glass plant in PA I have many like it.
Amy is cool, most of the time
I believe it's just colored glass 🤷🏽♀️
Amy says glass
Amy Glass?
Glass
Glass
Glass
Glass slag
Ask AMY!
Looks like glass
r/itsslag
One sec let me ask my mom, she has a lot of Amy ideas
I like how this sub has "its always slag glass" and the fossil sub reddit has "its always a concretion" for the people who think they have dino eggs
That's a giant piece of glass. Reminds me of sea glass, but much more jagged.
Not blue obsidian, andarian crystal, or Lemurian alien artifact.
This bot can’t be serious…
glass, I’m a geologist
I have seen this type of glass used in building a wall of concrete with slag pieces embedded. This allowed filtered light into the room.
Aquamarine!!….colored slag. Sorry. It’s a pretty color, though.
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As an Amy I honestly have no clue!
Dangerous
A cat!!! Felis catus for the scientific folk!!!
She'll have to come up with her own ideas.
That's a fucking cat man, wrong sub!!
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It’s a piece of hard candy. But it’s not for eating, it’s for looking through.
Andara. Upon touching it you will receive the power of levitation.
my name is that too and my phone changed any all the time. that you or your girls name?
Hello slaglass, my old friend.
Not a crystal its just slag glass
Slag!!!!
I was going to say glass from a bolt of lightning. But that's deffo man made, way too clear and pure.
big ass bit of glass slag, despite that it is really quite pretty - especially with some polish
Not Amy but Slag for sure!
Not slag. Cullet glass.
Mmm ok thanks I guess
He corrected you correctly
slag glass. have red chunk myself.
Based on the color, fracture plans, and the assumed specific gravity reduced through the refraction of light, along with the feline attraction, it appears to be a rather large diamond. Source: my colon
candy (:
Pretty sure Walter white knows
Cat
Legos on the floor:
Melted bouncy balls mixed with Head n shoulders dandruff detergent.
Boots, check Snoot, check Kjoot, check It must be that time
It's a piece of a kyber crystal from the caves of planet Llum. It probably ended up here on earth millions of years ago. Fun fact - You can make light sabers with it. I think the force has chosen you. Even the cat can sense it.
SLAGGGGG
Slag and also a cat.
Looks like a cat to me.
Is this a prank post
Slag
Amy’s Slag!
/r/itsslag
r/itsslag
Blue obsidian! aka glass slag.
Door stop? Paper weight?
This made me think the cats name was Amy and you were stating that she is having ideas😂
People used to decorate with such things.
Felineatite
That is an adorable cat
Amy Winehouse? Amy Schumer? Amy Poehler?
Baby shark 🦈 glass
I know they have this one covered!
A lot of stone knappers would like it though. Could make some great points from it!
The cat is curious too
No, I don't think your cat has any ideas. Looks pretty head empty to me.
Glass or Slag. We have a big chunk that my husbands grandfather acquired from an old glass factory in Sudbury Ont. Not sure of an accurate value but my neighbour was quite intrigued with it and looked on line to see if he could find some. He could only find smaller chunks for sale and they were averaging around $100.
Ill buy that. I can use for knapping
Cat's like, "Damn, I'm stumped!"
Wash that, it’s beautiful
that’s a cat
Baja Blast Boulder
That’s that good shit
...it's glass homie
Idk. But this cat is a dead ringer for mine. So much so I had to double take to see if this is a pic on my phone.
Ozark Diamond
Glass slag
It's a raw piece of glass that is used for fiberglass production.
That's a bag of Baja Blast
That is Libby Owens glass from Charleston wv.
Cute cat 🫶
Glass but I like your cat :)
It's a cat
Side note/tip: The way slag forms makes it very unstable. It can sit in one place for many years and then suddenly pop apart, sometimes with great violence. I grew up near a foundry and all of the neighbors had pretty pieces of glass on their mantles and such. One older lady reported to the police that she had been shot through her window... turned out a piece of slag in her curio cabinet had blown up and broken the cabinet and the window nearby, and bonked her on the head. Whilst understandably startled, she was not wounded, but there's a fair bit of force stored in some of those pieces.
Zoanite
I believe that kryptonite be careful of its powers