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Kyanite is a typically blue aluminosilicate mineral, found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and sedimentary rock. It is the high pressure polymorph of andalusite and sillimanite , and the presence of kyanite in metamorphic rocks generally indicates metamorphism deep in the Earth's crust .
Kainite (/ ˈ k aɪ n aɪ t / or / ˈ k eɪ n aɪ t /) [4] (KMg(SO 4)Cl·3H 2 O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of "Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H 2 O" according to the Nickel–Strunz classification.
Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical composition and crystal structure distinguish the various species. Within a mineral species there may be variation in physical properties or minor amounts of impurities that are recognized by mineralogists or wider society as a mineral variety.
Eclogite piece from Norway with a garnet (red) and omphacite (greyish-green) groundmass.The sky-blue crystals are kyanite.Minor white quartz is present, presumably from the recrystallization of coesite.
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The minerals kyanite and sillimanite are polymorphs of andalusite, each occurring under different temperature-pressure regimes and are therefore rarely found together in the same rock. Because of this the three minerals are a useful tool to help identify the pressure-temperature paths of the host rock in which they are found.
Although the atomic positions in the two space groups have a subtle difference, it does not clearly change the physical properties of omphacite. [6] The absolute unit cell volumes are a little different for the two different space group, the compressibility and thermal expansion does not show obviously different within experimental uncertainties.
Kaolinite (/ ˈ k eɪ. ə l ə ˌ n aɪ t,-l ɪ-/ KAY-ə-lə-nyte, -lih-; also called kaolin) [5] [6] [7] is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4.It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica (SiO 4) linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral sheet of alumina (AlO 6).