Albite: 51267
Item
- Title
- Albite: 51267
- Description
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Collection: Lafayette College
Location of origin: Virginia
Name on collection tag: Amelia C.H.
Formula: NaAlSi3O8
Hardness: 6- 6.5
Cleavage: perfect on {001}, very good on {010}
Color: white to gray
Luster: non-metallic, vitreous
Habit: commonly tabular
Crystal system: Triclinic
Compositional family: plagioclase feldspar group
Relative density: 2.6 - 2.65
- Creator
- 4940
- Type
- Mineral
- Mediator
- Tamara Carley
- Media
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