Rhabdomancy is a type of divination in which a hazel rod is used to trace the presence of minerals or metals underground. Divination is the occultic practice of ascertaining information by supernatural means. ... This article is about the tree; for other meanings of hazel, see Hazel (disambiguation). ... Minerals are natural compounds formed through geological processes. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ...

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