[Rockhounds] "Kraokinite"

[Frederick Olmstead]

Hi
Thankzzz
for all you'll help. 
you "guys" are good.....


My friend was on vacation and wanted to collect "rocks" on the glacier.
Was told no rocks on the (top of ) glacier.  Just the "kraokinite."
I was not writing anything.... just trying to figure out what this 
"stuff" was.



...the other remarks were interesting...
 our President was not at the last meeting.
The Vice President asked the Secretary to lead the meeting if the VP was 
not there in time...
The Secretary did lead the meeting.... 
This secretary happened to be the person who talked to the vp about the
kraokinite stuff.....''  Sounds like a Steven King story.....

GeorgiaO




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"Al Balmer wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:26:31 -0400, "Jeffrey T. Cessna"
><jcessna at nist.gov> wrote:
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>>My guess is that Georgia is trying to write a newsletter summary for 
>>a club meeting she could not attend based on notes taken by someone 
>>who was not the club secretary. The secretary was running the 
>>meeting, but was also the rockhound who mentioned the confusing 
>>mineral name (at the meeting).
>>
>>The rockhound was visiting a glacier in or near Banff National Park 
>>(in Canada) and wanted to collect some glacier tumbled rocks. The 
>>explanation for not finding any was that they were at such a high 
>>altitude that the only thing coming out of the glacier was 
>>"kraokinite." Which was reported to be a fine dust that serves as the 
>>nucleation point in the formation of snowflakes.
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>
>Very good! <G> Your hypothesis seems to fit all the known facts, at
>least.
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>>This suggests that the earlier answer of kaolinite might be the 
>>correct name. Searching with that spelling produces much more information.
>>
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>Yes. I tried answers.com, since they apparently use a soundex
>algorithm to suggest alternate spellings, but the closest suggestion
>was "granite."
>
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>>...or it could be a completely unrelated question.
>>
>>-Jeff Cessna
>>
>>At 11:35 AM 10/24/2007, you wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:59:44 -0400, Frederick Olmstead
>>><folmstead at rcn.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hello
>>>>
>>>>all you helpful "guys" and "gals"
>>>>
>>>>kraokinite
>>>>
>>>>I searched for kraokinite and found nada.
>>>>
>>>>Something about showflace - center of...
>>>>Anyone know what I am trying to talk about?
>>>>
>>>>From a rockhound who asked me...  "...no rocks on the glacer -- but
>>>>just the center -  of the snowflake - kraokinite."
>>>>
>>>>Thankzzz
>>>>
>>>>GeorgiaO
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>>>>
>>>I suspect that whatever it is, you've spelled it wrong. Ask the
>>>rockhound you talked to to elaborate.
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