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Mimetite:
- A lead arsenate chloride mineral
- Forms in arsenic-bearing lead deposits
- Part of a mineral series with pyromorphite and vanadinite
- Its name comes from the Greek word "μϊμητής/mimetes" (imitator) since it looks like pyromorphite #minerals

touch of the Dali sofa about those lips?

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Bastnäsite:
- A group of three carbonate-fluoride mineral species which contain cerium, lanthanum or yttrium
- Forms in alkali granite and syenite
- Named after the type locality Bastnäs Mines in Västmanland, Sweden #minerals

And more about the impact of the chytrid fungi carried by the Clawed Toads, which escaping amphibians intended for testing use spread to other amphibian populations with devastating results www.bbcearth.com/news/how-a-p...

One of the histories in @drbeldavis.bsky.social book is the use of the African Clawed Toad in the mid-20th Century as a way of detecting human pregnancy, featured in the new @nhm-london.bsky.social exhibition Fixing Our Broken Planet

Listen to the gallery guide soundcloud.com/nhmlondon/st...

The book Conceiving Histories by @drbeldavis.bsky.social is now published by MIT press

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