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12th Jan 2017 10:21 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert

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Uploaded by Daniele Mazza
Wow!


That's a nice one, and a difficult one. Built by yourself? Well done.

Looking forward to a future mindat article about this and the other models!


Cheers, Gerhard

12th Jan 2017 10:24 UTCErik Vercammen Expert

Nice idea, and very instructive.

A suggestion for the caption: red = oxygen, yellow is sulfur (forming SO4 groups) and blue = barium

And for me, it is a candidate as POTD.

14th Jan 2017 21:57 UTCNiels Brouwer

Really nice model indeed, I've always had plans to build one myself to go with my baryte collection. It really is a nice and colourful depiction of what those crystals look like at the atomic level.


However, I would probably use different connections for the O-S bonds versus the Ba-S bonds. The first are covalent bonds, whereas the latter are ionic, so I would like to go with some sort of colour coding similar to the atoms, or wood versus transparent plastic, to represent the different bond types.
 
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