20 Questions - round 4
 

The goal is to guess what the OP is thinking of, within 20 questions (as a group).

The current rule set:[LIST=1][*]The original poster will state the general type (for the item thought of): animal, vegetable, mineral, mixed (to be used only when the object is quite mixed), other. [*]Yes or No are the main answers. The OP will try to stick with those without explanation.[*]Questions will be taken in turn. i.e. The second question may not be asked until the first is answered.[*]If the answer is "yes", the asker of that question gets to ask the next question, they may not ask it before the previous qustion has been answered. If the answer is "no", someone else get to ask the next question and the asker that got the "no" answer must wait 24 hours before they can ask another question.[*]The asker must mark their post with the question number.[*]There maybe a 21st question of "Is it....", provided that the 20th question was answered "yes".[*]If it is successfully guessed, the one that got it gets to think up the next item.[*]Except 'point of order' posts, recaps, and clarifiactions: side discussions are discouraged.[/LIST]See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Questions[/url]

And here is the category for number 4:
[B][SIZE="4"]Mineral[/SIZE][/B]

Rather than PM someone with the answer and remove them from the game, I ran a string through the SHA-1 hash function three times. This will make for easy verification that the answer was not changed part way through:
670d6661f375878426e6240f77d6fc1588d67d96

Obviously I'm not expecting anyone to guess the string exactly, but I will provide it at the end and it can be checked against the hash.

1)is it box shaped ?

No.

2) Is it man-made?

Yes.

3) Is it electronic? (That is, is its primary function powered by electricity; under this definition I would not, for instance, consider a car to be electronic even though it has an onboard computer.)

[QUOTE=mdettweiler;235371](That is, is its primary function powered by electricity; under this definition I would not, for instance, consider a car to be electronic even though it has an onboard computer.)[/QUOTE]Don't forget about electric cars :wink:

[QUOTE=retina;235372]Don't forget about electric cars :wink:[/QUOTE]
Indeed, I had considered electric cars; I would consider them to be an electronic device, since their primary function is powered by electricity. (Apologies for not clarifying this further the first time.)

Yes.

[QUOTE=lavalamp;235375]Yes.[/QUOTE]
4) Is it readily purchasable by members of the public?

Yes.