[Rockhounds] How to make Fluorite octahedra?

[Lawrence Rush]

Axel: Great response....Are you by any chance related to Dave Barry?    :/}

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> Hi Johan,
>
> Make sure you have the following at hand:
>
> * Fluorite chunks
> * children
> * A good solid legal insurance and representation
> * A hard surface to stand on... a tile or concrete floor is ideal.
> * The Boston "Pops" Philharmonic Orchestra
>
> Children can break anything without EVER needing tools of any kind. So, 
> why
> should you give them tools whith which they can hurt themselves.
>
> The trick is to tell the kids that you'll teach them how to make fluorite
> float in the air NOT to make octahedra. Kids have no idea what octahedra
> are. In fact don't care that much about octahedra. Octahedra are not 
> edible.
>
> You deploy the kids on the tile floor with their arms hands stretched
> forwards, palms up and eyes closed.
> You put a fluorite chunk on each handpalm and tell the victim, pardon, 
> child
> to concentrate on making it float... Plant the suggestion in their minds
> that the rock gets lighter and lighter...
> Whithout warning (this is important) have the Boston Pops play the first 8
> bars of Aaron Copland's "Hoe-Down" at full strenght. You may need a large
> closet or a curtain to hide the orchestra from the kids. Use your
> imagination, it's only about a 100 musicians (You may want to stack the
> contrabasses horizontally to save space).
>
> Try to calm the children afterwards... Tell them that if they keep their
> trauma to themselves you will not sue their parents for breaking your
> precious fluorite.
>
> Inspect the floor. There's bound to be an octahedral fragment among the
> rubble.
>
> No seriously, Johan, I have no idea how to go about that...
>
> Cheers
> Axel
>
>
>
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>> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] How to make Fluorite octahedra?
>>
>> How can I teach children in our club to make fluorite octahedra?
>> I assume: get the right kind of fluorite, use some kind of
>> rock splitter, right orientation etc.
>> Have never tried it.
>>
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>>
>> Johan Maertens
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