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  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
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BBC news story about unidentified yellow waxy substance.

I found a lump of this stuff a couple of weeks ago, at a cove just around the corner from Cwmtydu. I thought it looked like beeswax, so I took it home with me! :D

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Hopefully it isn't nuclear waste...

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Posted
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
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Sure its not amber? Or beeswax or tallow?

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
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I remember reading years back that Nostradamus predicted that a something yellow

would land on western shores..!! Conclude what you wish, i still believe a cargo full of bananas..! :)

Posted
  • Location: St. Albans, Herts
  • Location: St. Albans, Herts
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Looks like amber. My mum found a big bit on the Devon coast years ago, and I think it commonly washes up on the western coasts of britain. Your local museum should be able to tell you.

EDIT: Just seen your BBC story link (doh!). Very weird....does it glow??? or tick? or make geigercounters go nuts? Run..............

Posted
  • Location: New York City
  • Location: New York City
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you're thinking of uranium oxide U3O8 which does actually look similar to that

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  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
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Seems like this stuff was probably vegetable fat (yuk). Foul smelling apparently - though my bit doesn't smell at all.

So, Snowbear closest with tallow perhaps.

Thanks for the reassuring replies from academics... especially as I was carrying it about in my coat pocket for a few days!

Think I'll put some toast on.

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  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
  • Location: Colchester, Essex, UK (33m ASL)
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Sure its not butter?? :)

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