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I kept a chain upon my door

That would shake the shame of Cain

Into a blind submission

The burning ghost without a name

Was calling all the same

But I just wouldn't listen

~~ Gotta Knock A Little Harder from Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door

"It was the day I understood: war is atrocity committed in the name of survival. It is a lesson I wish I had never learned."

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Stardust Library Dust Beloved: Personification of the Periodic Table

(This post is a clone from the index page, which doesn’t seem to be available in mobile view.)

The currently existing characters for the story of personified chemical elements, Dust Beloved. I’ll slowly fill this page with links to the characters’ info.

The characters with some design + backstory will have their names listed below. As the stories are originally written in Mandarin, their translated names are included, too. 

Character Info

Hydrogen & Helium

s block:

Lithium [黎希], Sodium [索迪], Potassium [谢莉], Rubidium [洛宾], Caesium [星夏]、Francium [飞萤] Beryllium [贝莉], … Calcium [凯茜], Strontium [思蒂安]

p block:

Carbon [卡尔], Silicon [希律], Germanium [哲梅], Tin [斯坦恩], Lead [莱德] Nitrogen [诺], Phosphorus [枫], … Bismuth [北梦] Fluorine [菲尔琳], Chlorine [可琳], Bromine [裴茗], Iodine [艾尔黛], Astatine [爱丝特奠]

d block:

Manganese [玛姬], Technetium [泰勒] Copper [秋珀], Argentum [埃切特], Aurum [艾温] … Mercury [梅克俐], Copernicium [坎贝尔]

(Last updated: 4th Sept 2021) The 2 newest links will be indicated with a ☘️ for reference!

PS. I didn’t include why I give certain characters their quirks, but feel free to ask me if you’re curious! Some seemingly mundane details may (or may not) have something to do with their chemical properties.

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Bromine / 35 Br 裴茗

Iodine / 53 I 艾尔黛

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*Speculation about characters contained*

I had got fascinated with this pair before I finished BG1. Ever wondering about Khalid's hair color because I've seen different depictions of it and his original avatar is too dim to identify. _(:з」∠)_

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Joseph von Fraunhofer (6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optician. 

Orphaned at eleven, Fraunhofer took up an apprenticeship with a Munich glassmaker, who treated him poorly and denied him access to books. In 1801, the workshop in which he was working collapsed and he was buried in the rubble. The rescue operation leader Prince Elector of Bavaria became his patron, providing him with books and forcing his employer to allow the young Fraunhofer time to study. 

Later, Fraunhofer johned a glassworks factory where he made excellent optical glass and became the world’s leading optical-instrument maker. 

Fraunhofer’s contributions are not limited to making fine glass . 

He was the first to study the dark lines of the Sun’s spectrum, now known as Fraunhofer lines. He also was the first to use extensively the diffraction grating, a device that disperses light more effectively than a prism does. His work set the stage for the development of spectroscopy.

The dark lines in a stellar spectrum correspond to definite frequencies absorbed by chemical substances in the outer layers of the star. Fraunhofer mapped and named over 570 of them (574 dark fixed lines in the solar spectrum), not only the Sun but also including spectra of a number of bright stars in the night sky, such as Sirius and Capella. He remarked on the similarities and differences between their line patterns and by measuring their wavelengths he found that the relative positions of the lines in the spectra of elements are constant.

His works and discoveries were a significant breakthrough in Science because it paved the way for measuring the composition and temperature of stars, thus the study of Astronomy itself. 

The epitaph on his tomb reads: Approxi-mavit sidera. (He brought the stars closer.)

Photo 3: This is an identical copy of the Fraunhofer refactor, made in Fraunhofer’s workshop before his death and was delivered to the Berlin Observatory. With this telescope, Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune in 1846 (photo: J.S. Schlimmer 1995). 

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Happy birthday Augustin_Jean Fresnel！

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel - Scientist of the Day

Augustin-Jean Fresnel, a French physicist and mathematician, died July 14, 1827. Fresnel’s name is well-known to physicists because of his theoretical work in optics, but his greatest impact may have come from a practical device he invented, the Fresnel lens. Fresnel was asked by the French government to find some way to make lighthouses more efficient. A typical lighthouse of the day would have a kerosene flame and some sort of lens and reflector system to direct the light out to sea, but most of the light was lost, and beams were very faint. So Fresnel came up with a lens that looks like a multi-sided crystal barrel, surmounted with an elaborate crown of prisms. It was so designed that nearly every ray of light from the source is re-directed out on a horizontal path. The first Fresnel lens was installed in France in 1823, and by the 1850s they were in use everywhere. Fresnel lenses are ranked in “orders” of first through sixth; a first-order lens, the largest in ordinary use, is about 12 feet high and 7 feet wide, and sends out a beam that can be seen for over twenty miles. There are only about a dozen first-order Fresnel lenses left in the United States; each is worth millions of dollars. In our opinion, they are the most beautiful cut-glass objects ever made.

The images show, in order, a first-order lens from Cape Canaveral, now on display at Ponce Inlet, Florida; a first-order lens in place in the Heceta Head Light, Oregon; a restored third-order lens from Queensland, Australia; and a fourth-order lens at Horton Point, Long Island. This link shows a variety of Fresnel lenses on display in American maritime museums.

Fresnel did not live to see the popularity of his invention; he died of tuberculosis on this day in 1827, only 39 years old.

Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Happy birthday Albert Einstein,thanks for your great work

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http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/diaries/scottslastexpedition/1912/01/

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定位

这里大概是杂乱的图和脑洞堆积处，没什么整理的东西而且不怎么放