Minerals and Electricity

Hello dear community, first of all I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day full of positive experiences! In this post, I would like to discuss an interesting topic and hope you can expand your knowledge a little.

The ancient Greeks already knew that it is possible to generate static electricity with minerals long before the electricity was invented as we know it today and a good example is amber with which it is possible to generate electricity by rubbing. In the pictures you can see here different specimens of the mineral shungite which is characterized by conducting electricity and there are only a few minerals of the same appearance that have similar properties. This ability is interesting for shielding and neutralizing electromagnetic radiation and the conductivity can be attributed to the high content of carbon and hydrogen and it is considered a mineral that not only shields the electrosmog but at the same time converts it into useful forms of energy. This property is also important to easily expose counterfeits, because only the original shungite is able to conduct electricity and also other minerals such as quartz have similar abilities and when it comes to general conductivity, the state also plays a role and moist rocks are usually more conductive than dry and that a mineral can conduct electricity, movable and charged particles must be present. Researchers have also made use of the property of moving particles and developed a synthetic mineral that consists of different elements and has the ability to convert heat into electricity and this is particularly interesting for industrial purposes to generate energy with the excess heat and particularly interesting from the chemical composition is copper to make electrons more conductive. Piezoelectric minerals are also of great importance in this context and describes an effect in which electrical charge is generated on the surface by the action of pressure and pyroelectricity is also interesting, which describes an effect in which electric charge is generated by the influence of temperature and a good example of minerals that have these effects are tourmaline.

Thanks a lot for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about minerals! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.