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a boring gray rock that's secretly hoarding crystals like a dragon with self-esteem issues.
means A hollow rock whose unremarkable outside hides a cavity lined with crystals or other mineral deposits.
from From the Greek geōdēs, meaning 'earthlike' or 'earthy' — from gē, 'earth,' plus the suffix -ōdēs, 'resembling.' The ancients used it for rocks that looked like packed clods of dirt; the word came to English by way of Latin geodes in the 17th century, by which point people had presumably cracked a few open and discovered the earthy lump was lying about its contents.
- hidden hollow
- Crystals grow inward from a gas bubble's empty shell
- slow art
- Some take millions of years to fill
- surprise inside
- Truly hollow until you crack it open
- amethyst factory
- Brazil's biggest reach over ten feet tall
- water trapped
- Some still hold ancient sloshing liquid inside
plains geode — iowa's state rock, hollow calcite-filled spheres found in the des moines river valley
moroccan amethyst geode — purple crystal-lined geodes from imilchil, morocco, mined and sold globally since the 1970s
mexican fire opal geode — hollow nodules from querétaro containing orange-red opals, prized by collectors