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| - A bluish variety known as cyprine has been reported from Franklin, New Jersey and other locations, the blue is due to impurities of copper. Californite is a name sometimes used for jade-like vesuvianite, also known as California-, American- or Vesuvianite-jade. Xanthite is a manganese rich variety. Wiluite is an optically positive variety from Wilui, Siberia. Idocrase is an older synonym sometimes used for gemstone quality vesuvianite.
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| Category
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| opticalprop
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| mohs
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| Molweight
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| Solubility
| - Vesuvianite is virtually insolouble in acids
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| Other
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| Gravity
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| streak
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| formula
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| System
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| pleochroism
| - slight in colored varieties
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| Color
| - Yellow, green, brown - rarely blue or red
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| cleavage
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| habit
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| diaphaneity
| - Subtransparent to Translucent
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| fracture
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| refractive
| - nω = 1.702 - 1.742 nε = 1.698 - 1.736
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| birefringence
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| abstract
| - A bluish variety known as cyprine has been reported from Franklin, New Jersey and other locations, the blue is due to impurities of copper. Californite is a name sometimes used for jade-like vesuvianite, also known as California-, American- or Vesuvianite-jade. Xanthite is a manganese rich variety. Wiluite is an optically positive variety from Wilui, Siberia. Idocrase is an older synonym sometimes used for gemstone quality vesuvianite.
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