Mineral terms

Test yourself on these. Try to guess the associations before following the links:

• diamond
• glass and glass ^[1]
• gold
• iron and iron
• shell and shell
• slate
• stone, stone and stone

Charles

Hu: This is analogous to Anatomical terms and Animal terms. Perhaps there will one day be Vegetable terms, so that we will have the canonical first question of 20 Questions: "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?".

Charles: Yes, I think we should get busy naming some joseki after roots and brassicas. So far: just flower?

Hu: and bamboo, kaya, and another flower.

BobMcGuigan: And we do have one geologically named joseki.

[1]: This last link stretches a point.