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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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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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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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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Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. — 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0 Lustre (mineralogy) Sulfide mineral Selenide minerals Telluride mineral Classification...
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light. They are transparent to translucent with a white streak and vitreous lustre. The examination in polarized light of a transverse section shows that each...
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greyish, bluish, or purple. On the best developed of the three cleavages, the lustre is pearly; on other surfaces it is glassy. When exposed to water, anhydrite...
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