Discussion open for comments on EGUsphere: GC Insights: The crystal structures behind the optical properties of minerals – a case study of using TotBlocks in an undergraduate mineralogy lab doi.org/10.5194/egusph…

Check out this preprint on using TotBlocks in an undergraduate classroom setting! You can give feedback during the open peer review period until April 24!

Did you know? This was the predecessor to our TotBlocks project! It takes about an hour or two to 3D print the same structure, rather than 2 weeks of non-stop cutting, scoring, and gluing/taping (a lot of questionable fumes were inhaled in those two weeks...) sound on for ASMR 😉

📣#NewPaper Alert 📣Paige dePolo and I used 3D-printed crystal structures (TotBlocks) in an optical mineralogy lab. We found that TotBlocks were useful in helping students to learn the relationships between crystal structures and cleavage/pleochroism. doi.org/10.5194/gc-6-1…