moldavite

There’s a piece of moldavite in it, a piece of smoky quartz, a piece of tourmaline.

After TikTok influencers espoused the beauty and purported powers of moldavite, an olive-green tektite, “we would get asked every single day,” said Cheryl Rey, Crystalarium’s curator and manager.

The piece of moldavite that I have is the perfect encapsulation of the uniformitarianism-catastrophism compromise.

My own piece of moldavite is decidedly green, thanks to a high concentration of the element nickel.

The moldavite is unmistakably drop-shaped and slightly arched like a leaping dolphin.