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MINERALOGY (FINALS) - QUIZ ONE > SIMPLE (Varieties) > Flashcards

SIMPLE (Varieties) Flashcards

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(Corundum variety) Pink to red variety, caused by impurities like chromium

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Ruby

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(Hematite variety) Earthy, reddish variety used as a natural red pigment

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Red Ochre

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Ice stalactite hanging down.

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Icicle

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(Ilmenite variety) The alteration product of Ilmenite

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Leucoxene

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(Ilmenite variety) Most important variety due to its widespread use in the production of titanium dioxide pigment

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Ferrian Ilmenite

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Ice coating over other surfaces, formed during freezing rain storms.

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Glaze

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Rounded ice pellet with alternating layers of snow and solid ice.

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Hailstone

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Large mass of solid ice floating in the ocean, broken away from a landmass.

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Iceberg

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(Cassiterite variety) A variety with wood-like appearance due to fibrous growth patterns

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Wood Tin

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(Corundum variety) Blue gem variety caused by iron with titanium impurity

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Sapphire

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(Perovskite variety) A variety rich in cerium

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Knopite

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(Hematite variety) A pseudomorph of hematite after magnetite

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Martite

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(Rutile variety) A variety that contains niobium

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Needle Rutile

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(Corundum variety) Orange-pink gem variety of sapphire

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Padparadscha

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(Periclase variety) Fe(II)-bearing variety

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Ferropericlase

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(Rutile variety) Made of titanium dioxide, usually looks like metallic brown crystals

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Struverite

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(Rutile variety) Minerals made of titanium dioxide; it’s found as hard, shiny crystals with a specific shape, and it can have various colors

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Anatase

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(Ilmenite variety) Variety rich in magnesium, is valuable for industrial processes like making refractory materials

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Picroilmenite

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Accumulated non-liquid precipitation.

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Snow

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(Rutile variety) Quartz with inclusions of gold and yellow needle-like rutile inclusions

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Rutilated Quartz

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(Hematite variety) Disorganized, flat, hexagonal plates that resemble a rose in their crystal formation

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Iron Rose

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Moving mass of compressed snow and ice flowing down a mountain.

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Glacier

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(Cuprite variety) A fibrous variety often appearing as delicate, hair-like crystals

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Chalcotrichite

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(Pyrolusite variety) Uncommon form that has larger, individual crystals

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Polianite

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Individual snow crystal, often in small, perfect, hexagonal shapes.

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Snowflake

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Frozen dew forming ice crystals.

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Frost

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(Wüstite variety) Fe-bearing variety of periclase

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Magnesiowüstite

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(Rutile variety) A tantalum-bearing form variety

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Ilmenorutile

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(Perovskite variety) A variety that contains niobium

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Dysanalyte

30
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(Ilmenite variety) Iron-rich variety

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Washingtonite

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(Ilmenite variety) Magnesium-rich variety

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Menaccanite

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(Uraninite variety) A massive, often globular, possibly impure variety

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Pitchblende

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Spongy ice formed in flowing streams

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Frazil

34
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(Rutile variety) Mineral made of titanium dioxide, usually looks like metallic brown crystals

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Brookite

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(Hematite variety) Massive botryoidal form variety, and gives the appearance of lumpy kidney-like masses

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Kidney Ore

MINERALOGY (FINALS) - QUIZ ONE (8 decks)

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