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2. Crocoite - Wikipedia

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   Crocoite is commonly found as large, well-developed prismatic adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to vitreous lustre. On exposure to UV light some of the translucency and brilliancy is lost.

3. Lustre (mineralogy) - Wikipedia

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   Adamantine minerals possess a superlative [clarification needed] lustre, which is most notably seen in diamond. [1] Such minerals are transparent or translucent, and have a high refractive index (of 1.9 or more). [2] Minerals with a true adamantine lustre are uncommon, with examples including cerussite, zircon, and cubic zirconia. [2]

4. Adamantine - Wikipedia

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   Adamantine may refer to: Adamant or adamantine, a generic name for a very hard material; Adamantine (veneer), a patented celluloid veneer; Adamantine lustre, a property of some minerals; Adamantine spar, a mineral; Adamantine, a 2018 album by Burgerkill "Adamantine", a 1996 song by Thirty Ought Six, released as Mute Records 196

5. Adamantine lustre - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 26 March 2018, at 05:55 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

6. Cerussite - Wikipedia

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   The mineral may be readily recognized by its characteristic twinning, in conjunction with the adamantine lustre and high specific gravity. It dissolves with effervescence in dilute nitric acid. A blowpipe test will cause it to fuse very readily, and gives indications for lead. [5]

7. Adamantine spar - Wikipedia

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   Adamantine spar is a silky brown variety of corundum. It has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale. [1] See also. Yogo sapphire; References This page was last edited ...