You think THAT'S bad.... in Telvanni Pennisula I recently encountered something that apparently reared its ugly head in the original Elder Scrolls games...Malachite glass.... W T ACTUAL F!!! As a geologist, this wounds me to the core. Sears my soul. Tears my world apart. Malachite is absolutely NOT a glass. Cannot be made into a glass. And doesn't even contain any of the main component of glass (silica). In fact, other than both containing oxygen atoms, they have nothing in common. Whoever decided to take a secondary copper mineral and make it was a glass should be forced to sit thru Rocks and Minerals 101.... repeatedly.
BixenteN7Akantor wrote: »You think THAT'S bad.... in Telvanni Pennisula I recently encountered something that apparently reared its ugly head in the original Elder Scrolls games...Malachite glass.... W T ACTUAL F!!! As a geologist, this wounds me to the core. Sears my soul. Tears my world apart. Malachite is absolutely NOT a glass. Cannot be made into a glass. And doesn't even contain any of the main component of glass (silica). In fact, other than both containing oxygen atoms, they have nothing in common. Whoever decided to take a secondary copper mineral and make it was a glass should be forced to sit thru Rocks and Minerals 101.... repeatedly.
It is actually said in TES3:Morrowind that it is called "glass" because of it looks like common glass, but Malachite is stated as a metal, as it should.
You think THAT'S bad.... in Telvanni Pennisula I recently encountered something that apparently reared its ugly head in the original Elder Scrolls games...Malachite glass.... W T ACTUAL F!!! As a geologist, this wounds me to the core. Sears my soul. Tears my world apart. Malachite is absolutely NOT a glass. Cannot be made into a glass. And doesn't even contain any of the main component of glass (silica). In fact, other than both containing oxygen atoms, they have nothing in common. Whoever decided to take a secondary copper mineral and make it was a glass should be forced to sit thru Rocks and Minerals 101.... repeatedly.
Malachite is a color, like Ebony, which I'm surprised you didn't mention. I take more exception to mining ores of alloys.