Actinolite is an amphibole silicate mineral with the chemical formula Ca2(Mg4.5–2.5Fe2+0.5–2.5)Si8O22(OH)2. The name actinolite is derived from the Greek...
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Actinolite (/ækˈtɪnoʊlaɪt/ ak-TIN-oh-lyte) is a compact rural community within geographic Elzevir Township in the Municipality of Tweed, Hastings County...
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Tremolite (redirect from Tremolite-Actinolite)
forms, crystals and fibers. Tremolite forms a series with actinolite and ferro-actinolite. Pure magnesium tremolite is creamy white, but the color grades...
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a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no quartz. It is...
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minerals include quartz, orthoclase, talc, carbonate minerals and amphibole (actinolite). Greenschist is a general field petrologic term for metamorphic or altered...
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Ferro-actinolite is the ferrous iron-rich endmember of the actinolite-tremolite continuous solid solution series of the double chain calcareous amphibole...
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ambiguity. The name was used by René Just Haüy to include tremolite, actinolite and hornblende. The group was so named by Haüy in allusion to the protean...
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Abramovite Abswurmbachite Abuite Acanthite Acetamide Achalaite Achávalite Actinolite Acuminite Adamite Adamsite-(Y) Adelite Admontite Adranosite Aegirine Aegirine-augite...
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over 300 types of minerals that have been used as gemstones. Such as: Actinolite Nephrite (var.) Adamite Aegirine Afghanite Agrellite Algodonite Alunite...
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vermiculite contaminated with asbestos, typically richterite, winchite, actinolite or tremolite. Vermiculite contaminated with asbestos from the Libby mine...
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rocks and occurs in amphibolites. Usually it coexists with hornblende or actinolite, magnesium clinochlore chlorite, talc, serpentine-antigorite minerals...
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asbestos with UN 2212 limited to asbestos, amphibole amosite, tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, or crocidolite. Another exception, NA 3334, is self-defense...
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nepheline, albite, arfvedsonite in igneous rocks; with tremolite, ferro-actinolite in metamorphic rocks; and with grunerite, magnetite, hematite, stilpnomelane...
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the amphibole class: amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite and actinolite. Short, fiber-like minerals include wollastonite and palygorskite. Biological...
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Grunerite – Fe7Si8O22(OH)2 Tremolite series Tremolite – Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Actinolite – Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2 Hornblende – (Ca,Na) 2–3(Mg,Fe,Al) 5Si 6(Al,Si)...
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quartz, albite, sericite, and garnet, and is also found in associate with actinolite and epidote. In his pioneering work on metamorphic facies in the Scottish...
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greenstone belts, because low-grade metamorphism of basalt produces chlorite, actinolite, epidote and other green minerals. As well as forming large parts of the...
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chlorite, epidote and actinolite. Characteristic mineral assemblages are: In metabasites: chlorite + albite + epidote ± actinolite, quartz In metagreywackes:...
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middle member of this series with an intermediate composition is called actinolite (the silky fibrous mineral form is one form of asbestos). The higher the...
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the calcium, magnesium, and iron-rich amphibole minerals tremolite or actinolite (aggregates of which also make up one form of asbestos). The chemical...
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arsenic sulfide (realgar), mercury sulfide, and cinnabar. Asbestos ore (Actinolite, Yang Qi Shi, 阳起石) is used to treat impotence in TCM. Due to galena's...
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between hornblende and the closely related amphibole minerals, tremolite–actinolite, at elevated temperature. A miscibility gap exists at lower temperatures...
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Asbestos-containing minerals known to form mountain leather include: actinolite, palygorskite, saponite, sepiolite, tremolite, and zeolite. Chrysotile...
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Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds Asbestos (all forms, including actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite) Azathioprine...
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of albite or oligoclase, together with chlorite, epidote, calcite, and actinolite. Spilite is veined by calcite or chalcedony, and vesicles and cavities...
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minerals within the mafic rocks: The typical green minerals are chlorite, actinolite, and other green amphiboles. Greenstone belts also often contain ore deposits...
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scapolite; with these phlogopite, various feldspars, pyrites, quartz and actinolite often occur. These rocks are fine-grained, and though often banded, are...
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representation of a metamorphic reaction. Abbreviations of minerals: act = actinolite; chl = chlorite; ep = epidote; gt = garnet; hbl = hornblende; plag = plagioclase...
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far the main gangue mineral while other gangue minerals are tremolite-actinolite and calcite. Apatite is at places evenly distributed in the magnetite...
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the right tributary Elzevir Creek, heads southwest under the highway at Actinolite and runs parallel to Highway 37. It reaches its mouth at the Moira River...
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