Ah, they're a bit toasty, but they're fine. Thanks for asking.
[ the skin on his hands are a bit pink from the residual heat, but otherwise fine. he waggles a set of fingers at leaks to demonstrate.
as for their loot, ]
Hmm. We could certainly try. I'd rather not risk damaging the tongs [ he'll have to return them ], but maybe there's something else around here we can use.
[ e.g. they can pit this rock against another rock, see if the fragment breaks. (according to google, "Because meteorites do not contain quartz, the hardest common terrestrial mineral, they are not very hard. An ordinary chondrite can easily be smashed with a hammer"...!) ]
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[ the skin on his hands are a bit pink from the residual heat, but otherwise fine. he waggles a set of fingers at leaks to demonstrate.
as for their loot, ]
Hmm. We could certainly try. I'd rather not risk damaging the tongs [ he'll have to return them ], but maybe there's something else around here we can use.
[ e.g. they can pit this rock against another rock, see if the fragment breaks. (according to google, "Because meteorites do not contain quartz, the hardest common terrestrial mineral, they are not very hard. An ordinary chondrite can easily be smashed with a hammer"...!) ]