fandomhigh | Science Classroom; Tuesday [ 08/02 ].

So there it was. A large chunk of rock sitting in the middle of a laboratory classroom, waiting to be researched. Jane wasn’t entirely sure it wanted to be researched, though, with all the elusiveness and mystery it was giving off, but, then again, geology was hardly her area of scientific expertise, and she had a feeling it wasn’t quite Miss Granger’s forte either.

Thankfully, that was why they had their brilliant and inquisitive students to help, yes?

Goodness, she hoped so! Either way, a ~~handwavey~~ message had been sent out to the student body, encouraging anyone who was interested to come on in and help them out today.

“Hello, students,” she gave them a bit of an uncertain smile. “Thank you all for coming and giving us a hand with this most mysterious piece of rock. It’s so good to see so many of you eager to help, but Miss Granger and myself must ask you to take the utmost care. Clearly, we are uncertain what we are dealing with, so we must be careful.”

"Yes, please. I wish we had more information to give you," said Hermione, and don't think that wasn't bothering her. Of course, she'd also decided that if there was some strange mysterious rock that no one knew anything about, she was not going to be touching it unless it was absolutely necessary. At least without gloves. She knew that was probably just paranoia. "If there is anything you can tell us about it, don't hesitate to speak up."

“We’ve got gloves, microscopes, goggles, you name it,” Jane offered, “and also plenty of books for reference. Let’s use our resources and try to figure out what we can. Consider everything; even if you find something that’s just minutely interesting or different or strange, it could be useful.”

"Now, if anyone has any questions, we'll answer them as best we can," Hermione went on. "But let's get started and see what we can find, shall we?"

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"We do! We need one!" He was way too eager about this. Way, way too eager.

"It's... it can't just be sublimating, can it?"

Scully was bouncing. Adult dignity be damned. Mulder would laugh and tell her she looked like an excited Pomeranian.

"What, at room temperature?" She paused, chanced a look at the thing, and said, "It does have properties in common with mercury, but. We'd need a gas analysis to be sure. Spectrograph. We need a spectrograph."

Now! Why were there no grad students to order around here? Oh right, they were the enthusiastic intern-minions in this venture.

"I've always wanted to play with one of those!" Topher nearly shrieked. Urgently, he asked, "Can we get one?"

Then he looked around. Damnit, he wanted an intern!

"I can borrow one from the clinic if we don't have one here," Scully said, nodding rapidly. Then paused. "Wait, there was something I saw online-- can you bring up the Wired (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/in-high-school-chem-labs-every-camera-phone-can-be-a-spectrometer/) website and search on cell phones?"

"The one about how you can use cameraphones as spectrometers?" he asked excitedly. "I bookmarked that! We tried it with Tony's, but it doesn't seem to work. Try yours?"

Scully pulled hers out and said, "We need to download the software, to my phone, then let's see what happens!"

Ah, Science. Bringing people together.

"Do it!" he insisted, sliding his laptop over to her. And bouncing. This was way too exciting.

Geek glee! Geek glee!

Scully was humming happily as she connected her phone, tapping it to the menu and pointing to Topher. "Download!"

"Download! Download download download!"

This was so much more fun than getting punched!

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