Ruri no Houseki - Vol. 2 Ch. 7 - Mountains in the Palm

[MangaDex]

 

[SuperOniichan]

The characters are so excited about mineralogy that it's actually inspiring, even if you're not interested.

 

[Serenata]

This loli needs some serious correction! thankfully Nagi san seems to already have a pretty good handle of her and how to lead her on in the right path... I guess that's correction too, but not enough!!

I really makes me want to check out the rivers around here

 

[lowarctic]

problematic age gap mineralogist lesbians

 

[JamesBunny]

For page 3 can you please do text horizontal moving forward? English is really hard to read vertically

 

[semi_truck]

For page 3 can you please do text horizontal moving forward? English is really hard to read vertically

Done. I was a bit hung up on that section. On one hand, readability. On the other, trying to fit within the inpainted Japanese text so there aren't big lines in the background.

 

[YurbyDevourer]

Why is this manga already so crazy good? Like, weird fan service aside, the science parts are too interesting

 

[Legolias706]

In dutch the word used for the microscope depicted in this chapter would be distinct even in abbreviation
A low magnification stereo miscroscope like the one likely depicted in this chapter would be a 'binoculair'
while a high magnification microscope would be a 'microscoop'
anyway, I don't really have a point but in a dutch translation of page 18 a relatively common word would be swapped out for a much rarer one just because of small language distinctions. It's also a good example of how translation is very context based and how a direct text translation of that would be impossible to get right without the context around it.
Also, binocular translates into dutch to become 'verrekijker'. which would translate literally back into far-viewer.

 

[Pietje013]

It takes many round-trips unless you're checking the specimens on location if you follow the river method

 

[Beregorn]

It takes many round-trips unless you're checking the specimens on location if you follow the river method

A single person would usually pan for much bigger samples while moving upstream, while a large company would just sample the whole orography, mapping the geological composition of the region. The approach shown here would probably be used only in small research institutes.

 

[DanYHKim]

Sapphires fluoresce under long UV light, 'if there is not enough iron to quench the fluorescence'. It may be possible to have a darkened room and shine blue or UV light on the sand to find the sapphires by the light they emit.

It may also be possible to drop individual grains of sand through a beam of UV light, and have a detector for the emitted light. Detection of fluorescence can trigger a puff of air to deflect the sand grain to a collection bin, while other sand falls straight to another bin. This technique is used for finding diamonds, which scintillates under X-rays. It's a variation on "Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting" used in cell biology.