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nkurz on Dec 3, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found on...

Hmm. I heard that, but didn't put it together.

Magnesium Iron Silicate is Olivine. It has a very distinctive olive-green color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine.

Cummingtonite is Magnesium Iron Silicate Hydroxide. It's not a plausible eye-color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite.

I guess it's possible they were making this joke and flubbed it by leaving out a word?

(I looked it up because I live near Cummington MA, which it's named after)

EGreg on Dec 4, 2024 [–]

I imagine they had to have been making the joke, because 1) it would otherwise be too random of a reference and 2) the youtubers all picked up on it lol

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