Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Acanthite
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- Reason
- Quality lead image of Acanthite crystal, a form of silver sulfide. According to this article, in nature silver "mostly occurs in sulfide ores, especially acanthite and argentite". Interestingly silver sulfides are useful in photography! I saw this today on Commons FP noms.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Acanthite, Silver, Noble metal
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
- Creator
- Ivar Leidus
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 03:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 12:17, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Janke | Talk 11:38, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support - DreamSparrow Chat 07:45, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:16, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:03, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
Promoted File:Acanthite - Imiter mine, Jbel Saghro, Tinghir, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:09, 26 June 2022 (UTC)