Thanks! Yeah, scheelite shows up in my book as an "unusual" gemstone because it's too soft to cut. (The book doesn't mention the sky blue part--cool! It doesn't necessarily need to look like any color we might know, either--it may be another color entirely. But I'll definitely write down "tungsten" and "molybdenum" for future reference!)
As for the moon, I considered a surface rock with high iron content, but I'm worried it'd be too orange. The problem is that I'm looking for a seriously pink moon--rose or raspberry color, something taking its first steps along the scale toward purple. I've found minerals the color I want, but trying to figure out if they would work as the surface of an entire moon. I had considered some manganese compounds, which can provide the pink color--but once again, I'm not sure if I could cover a moon with even a thinnish layer with any degree of real probability, since I have no idea how rare they are. (It's possible this moon can be viewed as an interesting rarity, but I still want it in the realm of the possible.) My best possibility, I think, is making the moon's past include some violent volcanic activity.
Or maybe I'm not making any sense. The life of a writer, I guess--you gotta try to be an expert on everything, and it doesn't always work.
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Date: 2009-01-26 02:53 am (UTC)As for the moon, I considered a surface rock with high iron content, but I'm worried it'd be too orange. The problem is that I'm looking for a seriously pink moon--rose or raspberry color, something taking its first steps along the scale toward purple. I've found minerals the color I want, but trying to figure out if they would work as the surface of an entire moon. I had considered some manganese compounds, which can provide the pink color--but once again, I'm not sure if I could cover a moon with even a thinnish layer with any degree of real probability, since I have no idea how rare they are. (It's possible this moon can be viewed as an interesting rarity, but I still want it in the realm of the possible.) My best possibility, I think, is making the moon's past include some violent volcanic activity.
Or maybe I'm not making any sense. The life of a writer, I guess--you gotta try to be an expert on everything, and it doesn't always work.