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What Is Liquid Crystal Display, A Journey

Let’s explore an everyday technology that is truly amazing, if not a bit mind bending. And that is LCD, or liquid crystal display, commonly used in phones, computers and televisions. The life of an LCD screen sometimes begins in the earth, as many industrial products do. Quartz, of which Silicon is a part, is oneContinue reading “What Is Liquid Crystal Display, A Journey”

Minerals Feature: APATITE

View this post on Instagram A post shared by π•Šπ•’π•£π•’π•™ π•€π•œπ•–π•£π•• (@sarah.ikerd) β€œApatite is not actually a specific mineral, but rather, is a name for a group of similar isomorphous hexagonal phosphate minerals.” β€” University of Waterloo, Earth Sciences Museum https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/resources/detailed-rocks-and-minerals-articles/apatite