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.: Analysis
The wish room looks like pitted sandstone. In the 1800s, people would come in and place coins into the small pits and make a wish, if the coin remained there then the wish came true. Eastern Pipistrelles like to sleep in the Wish room, giving them good camouflage because the coloring of the sandstone is very similar to their coloring.
Within this room is set up an area with assorted minerals such as Halite (salt), Calcite, Opalite, Franklinite, Quartz, Fluorite, and a few lesser known minerals, as well as slag which is a byproduct of manufacturing by human activities. Here, the lights were turned off and a black light was shone over each mineral so that we could observe the difference in luminescence between the minerals.
Composition and Common Uses for these minerals:
Franklinite: Zinc Manganese Iron Oxide; commonly mined for zinc and manganese.
Halite: Sodium Chloride; commonly used as rock or table salt.
Opalite: microcrystalline quartz; used in jewelry and sculptures.
Calcite: calcium carbonate; used in cements, mortar, lime production, glass and steel industries, stone jewelry and sculptures, and mineral specimens.
Quartz: silicon dioxide; used in glass, abrasives, gemstones, electrical components, and optical lenses.
Fluorite: Calcium Fluoride; used as a flux in iron smelting, rare gemstones, a source of fluorine
Wernerite: Sodium Calcium Aluminum Silicate Chloride Carbonate Sulfate; used as gemstones and mineral specimens.
Willemite: Zinc Silicate; ore of zinc, and mineral specimens
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