Ulexite (/juːˈlɛksaɪt/) sometimes called TV rock or TV stone due to its unusual optical properties, is a hydrous borate hydroxide of sodium and calcium...
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the sample. It is often called and sold as the “television stone” (as is ulexite). Some selenite and satin spar specimens exhibit fluorescence or phosphorescence...
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) Tremolite Hexagonite (var.) Triphylite Triplite Tugtupite Turquoise Ulexite Ussingite Vanadinite Variscite Väyrynenite Vesuvianite (idocrase) Californite...
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anion exists as well. Many borate minerals, such as borax, colemanite, and ulexite, are salts: soft, readily soluble, and found in evaporite contexts. However...
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Colemanite is a secondary mineral that forms by alteration of borax and ulexite. It was first described in 1884 for an occurrence near Furnace Creek in...
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important sources of boron are the minerals colemanite, rasorite (kernite), ulexite and tincal. Together these constitute 90% of mined boron-containing ore...
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giving them a lustre reminiscent of silk. Examples include asbestos, ulexite and the satin spar variety of gypsum. A fibrous lustre is similar, but...
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magnesium, zinc, pearl, amber, ivory, finger nail, galena, linarite, ulexite, kinoite, cylindrite 2.5–3 Copper, aluminium, chalcocite, jet 3 Calcite...
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colemanite Ground Ulexite Calcined Tincal (Compacted) Bigadiç Colemanite Kestelek Colemanite Hisarcik Colemanite Espey Colemanite Ulexite Natural Zeolite...
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grossularite garnet) Uralite (alteration actinolite) Uchucchacuaite Uklonskovite Ulexite Ullmannite Ulrichite Ulvöspinel Umangite Umbite Umohoite Upalite Uraninite...
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