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Meteorite with Twin
Color Stripes
This ring has a centered wide inlay of
meteorite centered between two U shaped grooves with anodized
colors in them. Anodizing is a process where a clear oxide is
grown to a specific thickness, and it gets color by interference
of lightwaves like a soap bubble does. The meteorite used
is the Gibeon Meteorite, and is estimated to be over 4 billion
years old! The meteorite traveled millions of miles
through space before landing in South Africa sometime in
prehistory. It has a unique crystalline grain
structure called Widmanstatten lines that were caused by the
meteorite slowly cooling over millions of years. The ring shown is
7mm wide and the titanium
is the polished finish.
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