Serving platter. Arrange the leaves of lettuce on your cute plate. Make an oval at the bottom with slices of cucumber (this is the turkeyâs body). Slice the peppers into half-circle rings, keeping the bottoms of the peppers for later. Arrange the pepper slices above the cucumbers â yellow, then green, then red ones.
Stalactites form when water containing dissolved calcium bicarbonate from the limestone rock drips from the ceiling of a cave. As the water comes into contact with the air, some of the calcium bicarbonate precipitates back into limestone to form a tiny ring, which gradually elongates to form a stalactite. Stalagmites grow upwards from the drips that fall to the floor. They spread outwards more, so they have a wider, flatter shape than stalactites, but they gain mass at roughly the same rate. Limestone stalactites form extremely slowly â usually less than 10cm every thousand years â and radiometric dating has shown that some are over 190,000 years old.
stalactite and stalagmite (stÉlÄgÂ´mÄ«t) , mineral forms often found in caves; sometimes collectively called dripstone. A stalactite is an icicle-shaped mass of calcite attached to the roof of a limestone cavern. Groundwater trickling through cracks in the roofs of such caverns contains dissolved calcium bicarbonate.