Sam - grape agate
" Grape Agate is a market name for purple aggregates of tiny quartz crystals with botryoidal (spherical) habit. Mineralogically speaking, grape agate is not an agate and is actually botryoidal purple chalcedony. "
mohs scale hardness - 7

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Charlie - morganite
" The pink color of morganite is attributed to Mn2+ ions. Morganite is pleochroic, when it is viewed down its c crystallographic axis the color is more pink. In comparison to emerald, morganite lacks inclusions and fractures. "
mohs scale hardness - 7.5-8

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Aisha - cubic fluorite
" Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon. "
mohs scale hardness - 4

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Eleanor - rutile
" Rutile is an oxide mineral composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2), the most common natural form of TiO2. Rarer polymorphs of TiO2 are known, including anatase, akaogiite, and brookite. "
mohs scale hardness - 6-6.5

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Vivian - chrysoberyl
" The mineral or gemstone chrysoberyl is an aluminate of beryllium with the formula BeAl2O4. The three main varieties of chrysoberyl are: ordinary yellow-to-green chrysoberyl, cat's eye or cymophane, and alexandrite."
mohs scale hardness - 8.5

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Today's Pokémon is shell dragon. They are very clingy and long for companionship. They often hide in the large shell on their back, which they can also control the hardness of.

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A Florges and Grimmsnarl request! It protects its territory of exquisite flower gardens with the power of its hair, which can be used like tentacles and has the hardness of steel.

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The final bit on the character actually was a lighting pass. A lot of it tends to get softer with detailling, so I brought back some depth and hardness. Here I could have considered my conceptart goal done ... but I just loved it way too much and thought context is needed [07/20]

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I plan to color another one in due time, but until then, here's your Korekiyo under my experimental coloring! I discovered I can lower the hardness for the brush without relying on the blur effect. Was listening to Nightwish's Endless Forms Most Beautiful while coloring him.

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🧵Red Beryl🪡
Hardness: 7.5
"I know! I'll make you some cute pajamas!"
Red Beryl, the tailor with an impeccable sense of fashion.

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That one time I decided to do a selfportrait using only the basic brush tool in Phs on full hardness.
It was exhibited in the online exhibition in April 2021. by Independent biennial, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 💛🧡

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TW GORE + SEXUALITY ( NUDITY TOO IG) ||
drawing of Lillian is done!! Actually kind’ve proud of this. I used pretty much only an airbrush tool to shade. (tho on different hardness settings)

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good day i come bearing More Pain. vampires are killers by nature, and regardless of how competent you are, there's a certain hardness you have to acquire to survive. anyway,

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📘Alexandrite📕
Hardness: 8.5
"They stole Chrysoberyl away from me..."
Lexi, the intense, studious gem with a special condition & a loathing for Lunarians.

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y'know,, the mohs scale of mineral hardness,, i drew this on february and i still think it's hilarious

anyway separates!! bc why not [1-3]

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Petalite, also known as Castorite, is a lithium phyllosilicate mineral. It has a Moh's scale hardness of 6. Pelalite can be converted into quartz and spodumene through a special heating process. As such, it is useful in creating glass.

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Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with a Moh's scale hardness of 7. It can be found extraterrestrially and it's properties make it a good candidate for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. It is, in a way, related to Peridots.

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