It's funny the things you find in coal. What is it? This is one I'll take to the museum to ask an expert about.
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skip2468
- Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 @ 06:16:45 pm
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Very interesting - I didn't know about either of those. I'll have to ask my father if he remembers either.
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skip2468
- Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007 @ 06:26:56 pm
He probably will.
Hoping that you read and comment at my blog sometime. -
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lizdavies
- Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 @ 09:17:58 pm
Looks a bit like the meteorites we were inspecting on Saturday.
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Two special uses of coal in years gone by come to mind:
Ladies especially loved making beautiful coral flowers formed on a piece of coal by adding salt and possibly other ingredients.
My first home made radio used a small shining piece of coal along with a small piece of bee-frame wire for detecting radio signals. Very crude one might say, but looking back it was different and that made it interesting - and it worked!