CUMMINGTONITE

Just so you know. There is such a mineral named cummingtonite. Hell yeah! I’m not kidding. Just this morning when we were in mineralogy class -freezing our asses off at the NIGS AVR and waiting till the clock strikes 1:00- one of the lecture presentation slides caught my (short-spanned) attention. There it was. CUMMINGTONITE.Magnesium Iron trisilicate. (Mg,Fe)₇Si₈O₂₂(OH)_2. My face turned blank, then exploded into an annoyingly flushed one accompanied by a sudden burst of laughter. And then the whole class got my cue and began laughing too. F**k! I didn’t see that one coming. Although I know that a mineral’s name is derived from the locality from where it was first seen, I’m still wondering what cummingtonite looks like… And I’ve come to realize: my attention span is not that short after all…

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Photo taken at the crystallography class... 3rd year, 1st sem.