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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of gemstones, organized by species and types. Minerals ... 4 Rocks. 5 Chatoyant gems. 6 Asterism. 7 See also.
An Index of Mineral Species & Varieties Arranged Chemically (2 ed.). printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum (London). ISBN 978-0-565-00097-4. Max H. Hey; Peter G. Embrey (1974). An index of mineral species and varieties arranged chemically: with an alphabetical index of accepted names and synonyms.
A collection of identified rocks and minerals on display. The black stones on the left are obsidians; the lighter, hollow rocks are geodes. A collection of smaller mineral samples stored and displayed in clear cases Azurite specimen from the Morenci mine, Morenci, Arizona, USA.
Examples: wadsleyite (Mg 2 SiO 4) a sorosilicate and high pressure polymorph of forsterite and ringwoodite; leucophanite (NaCaBeSi 2 O 6 F), but it has Nickel-Strunz identifier 9.DH.05 (inosilicates with 4-periodic single chains, Si 4 O 12); clinoenstatite (MgSiO 3), but it has Nickel-Strunz identifier 9.DA.10 (inosilicates with 2-periodic ...
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Gem identification is basically a process of elimination. Gemstones of similar color undergo non-destructive optical testing until there is only one possible identity. Any single test is nearly always only indicative. For example: The specific gravity of ruby is 4.00, glass is 3.15–4.20, and cubic zirconia is 5.6–5.9 . So one can easily ...
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