An Elementary Introduction to MineralogyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 700 pages |
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Alumina Analyses angles antimony arsenic attached crystals barytes bead Beudant blowpipe blowpipe on charcoal blue Bohemia borax Brittle brown calcite carbonate chalybite chloride Cleavage cobalt colour colourless Combinations conchoidal crystalline decomposed Dufrénoy faces Fracture conchoidal Fracture uneven glass globule granular green grey Haidinger Harz Hausmann Hauy hemihedral hydrochloric acid imperfect inclining inner flame intersections intumesces Klaproth Lime Lustre metallic Lustre vitreous Magnesia manganese masses massive matrass matrass yields water mica mineral Mohs nitric acid Opaque outer flame oxide oxide of copper oxide of iron oxide of lead pearly perfect Phillips Phosphoric acid phosphorus plane poles potash Prismatic Protox Protoxide of iron Protoxide of manganese pyrite quartz Rammelsberg Red oxide Rhombohedral salt of phosphorus Saxony Sectile Silica Silica Alumina silver soda soluble solution Streak white striated parallel sublimate sulphate sulphuric acid titanic acid traces translucent Transparent...translucent truncates the edge Twin-face Twins varieties veins yellow zinc