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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grossularite garnet) Uralite (alteration actinolite) Uchucchacuaite Uklonskovite Ulexite Ullmannite Ulrichite Ulvöspinel Umangite Umbite Umohoite Ungemachite Upalite...
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removal of boron and lithium from present-day brines possibly occurs as ulexite and lithium-sulfate, this latter as double and/or triple salts. Sociedad...
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(Ca,Mn)CO3 Monohydrocalcite, CaCO3·H2O Nitratine Ocean acidification Ulexite Klein, Cornelis; Hurlbut, Cornelius S. Jr. (1993). Manual of mineralogy:...
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