• Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral...
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  • and Entertainment Luster (surname) Nadine Lustre (born 1993), Filipina actress and singer Lustre (mineralogy), a description of the way light interacts...
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    Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties...
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  • Luminance Luminiferous aether Luminosity Luminous intensity Lumen Lustre (mineralogy) Lux magnifying glass material science – optical properties metamerism...
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    deep blue-green color reminiscent of secondary copper minerals. Its high lustre, on the other hand, is more like secondary lead minerals. Localities in...
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    Mineral (category Mineralogy)
    In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific...
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    the flattened surface being a direction of perfect cleavage on which the lustre is markedly pearly in character. It is colorless or greyish-white, yellowish...
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    although it was valued in mineralogical collections. By the middle of the 20th century, this name ceased to be used in mineralogy as relevant, and jewelers...
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    is a blackish lead-grey in colour and gives a black shining streak. Its lustre is metallic. Discovered in the Italian Province of Lucca in 1852, it is...
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    usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured...
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