fusso
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What real life mineral is the closest to minecraft redstone, except for the colour?
What real life mineral is the closest to minecraft redstone in physicochemical properties, except for the colour?
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A red crystalline powder that spontaneously glows and conducts electricity? I don't think anything remotely similar exists in real life.
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Do we need a new forum for Fusso's posts? 
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Sounds like something that fusso would suggest!
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hahahahah.
anyway, a conductive mineral is already not that common, red minerals also are not that common, a red conductive mineral? never heard of one existing
anyway, i like mincraft a lot
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quote: Originally posted by Ubya  | hahahahah.
anyway, a conductive mineral is already not that common, red minerals also are not that common, a red conductive mineral? never heard of one existing
anyway, i like mincraft a lot
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(edited to remove colour requirement)
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native copper? 
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Apart from native copper there are nickeline (NiAs), briethauptite (NiSb) and melonite (NiTe2). The first and the last are much the same colour as
fresh copper but the second is a beautiful violet-pink. There are also a few thallium antimony compounds that range into the metallic magenta red
colours but none of them are either luminous or phosphorescent.
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you could be adventurous and include fluorescent minerals. that gives you the beautiful reds and crimson colours, but i cant think of any fluoros
that are conductive.
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And redstone will glow for a few seconds after hitting with a pickaxe or being stepped on (piezoluminescence?). What real life minerals do that?
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| Quote: Originally posted by fusso | | And redstone will glow for a few seconds after hitting with a pickaxe or being stepped on (piezoluminescence?). What real life minerals do that?
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Sounds like triboluminescence.
Are you sure this mineral isn't composed of crushed cherry Lifesavers or watermelon Jolly Ranchers?
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Could also be a semiconductor with red LED characteristics - I've seen people light up LEDs briefly using the stored charges on their fingers.
Semiconductors come to mind in general, if only because they're an easy out for a 'conductive' mineral. I don't recall Minecraft's rules on redstone
circuits, but they're probably not conducive to semiconductors being the source...
EDIT: Red selenium? It doesn't seem to have the triboluminescent properties, but it is a listed semiconductor with a bandgap of 2.05 eV (thus, it
would emit light at about 605 nm, or orange-red color if electrically excited).
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mix graphite with small granular bits of aluminum powder. the graphite might just conduct while in powder form.
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