Geode

Of these strange noises there are many explanations, the most plausible being that they are caused by the explosion of the species of stone known as the geode, fragments of which are frequently found among the mountains. ❋ Unknown (1805)

The geode has been a fairly open platform in the past – designed a STB around it in 2000 and had FreeBSD/linux ported to it fairly easily. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The geode is a spherical and apparently solid stone, but when broken is found to be hollow and coated with crystals. ❋ Unknown (1908)

Even worse, this move means Allie will be leaving behind her best friend, her "geode" collection and the only school she's ever known. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The overall effect is, in the words of Richard Fisher, an Arizona-based photographer and adventurer, like walking into an enormous geode. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So yes, the Little Bird and I went outside and smashed that old geode. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And watching it, I was reminded that I was actually given a geode years and years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even armed with the name of such a thing — a geode — it seemed impossible that there should be another one out there, let alone be affordable. ❋ David Rakoff (2010)

She fingered a fracture in the geode formation, pulled a piece of it free. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

Dissolved silicates are deposited in the interior in layers, forming the geode. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

Her fingers brushed its sharp interior: A surface like a geode glittered on the inside. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

In the natural world, a geode is formed in sedimentary or igneous rock. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

I looked in all his hangouts… in the LEGO castle, in the Barbie Dream House Jacuzzi, in the geode on my desk where he likes to rock climb. ❋ Lin Oliver (2010)

Because he's been going to the clubs, Webster Hall and the Limelight — Webster Hall with its multiple dancefloors and lots of dark corners and the Limelight on the inside of an old cathedral like a laser-lit geode. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The interior of the bathtub was coated in a crystalline coating, like the interior of a geode. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

But looking into the darkness of the bottle was like looking into a geode: Shining, rock-crystal teeth glinted back at her, seared obsidian-black from the fire. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

It might have originally been a geode, carved out of rock. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)