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    In mineralogy, an inclusion is any material trapped inside a mineral during its formation. In gemology, it is an object enclosed within a gemstone or reaching...
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  • non-disabled students Inclusion (mineral), any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation Inclusion bodies, aggregates of stainable...
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    A fluid inclusion is a bubble of liquid and/or gas that is trapped within a crystal. As minerals often form from a liquid or aqueous medium, tiny bubbles...
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    materials can be other minerals or fluids like water. Since diamonds have high strength and low reactivity with either the inclusion or the volcanic host...
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    are not considered minerals, even though they are often found as inclusions in other minerals; but water ice is considered a mineral. It must have a well-defined...
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    spar, desert rose, and gypsum flower are crystal habit varieties of the mineral gypsum. All varieties of gypsum, including selenite and alabaster, are...
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    Halite (redirect from Mineral salt)
    salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl). Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white...
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    chlorite. The most common inclusion mineral in micas is magnetite, but generally the inclusions are rare. Some zircon inclusions can also be found. The dolomite...
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    associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. On occasion in some localities, it may also be found with sulfur inclusions. The mineral is found worldwide...
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  • newer units will be above older units, except in cases of inversion. Carbon dating Geochronology Igneous intrusion Inclusion (mineral) Smith's laws v t e...
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  • occurs in minerals containing a great abundance of microscopic inclusions, with examples including opal and cordierite, jadeite. Many minerals with a greasy...
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    quartzite, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence...
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    medium. Mineral wool is also known as mineral cotton, mineral fiber, man-made mineral fiber (MMMF), and man-made vitreous fiber (MMVF). Specific mineral wool...
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    reheating a melt inclusion to its original melt temperature and then rapidly quenching to form a homogenous glass phase free of daughter minerals or vapor bubbles...
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    Quartz (redirect from Citrine (mineral))
    structure. Blue quartz contains inclusions of fibrous magnesio-riebeckite or crocidolite. Inclusions of the mineral dumortierite within quartz pieces...
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    Chalcedony (redirect from Plasma (mineral))
    of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while...
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  • Aleutite (category Monoclinic minerals)
    Aleutite is both a vanadate and arsenate mineral but it can also be considered as a natural salt-inclusion phase that was first discovered at Second scoria...
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    The mineral aggregate heliotrope (from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) 'sun' and τρέπειν (trépein) 'to turn'), also called Indian bloodstone or ematille...
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    Chrysotile (category Magnesium minerals)
    soft, fibrous silicate mineral in the serpentine subgroup of phyllosilicates; as such, it is distinct from other asbestiform minerals in the amphibole group...
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    Jasper (redirect from Jasper (mineral))
    of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown...
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    as the Minister for Mineral Resources. During other periods, the mineral resources portfolio has been enlarged by the inclusion of energy: there was...
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    Beverly the Bug, the first known example of an opal with an insect inclusion Minerals portal Biogenic silica Cacholong – variety of opalPages displaying...
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    Peridot (category Silicate minerals)
    Silky and rod-like inclusions are common in Pakistani peridots. The most common mineral inclusion in peridot is the chromium-rich mineral chromite. Magnesium-rich...
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    calcium–aluminium-rich inclusion or Ca–Al-rich inclusion (CAI) is a submillimeter- to centimeter-sized light-colored calcium- and aluminium-rich inclusion found in...
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    Sylvite (category Potassium minerals)
    Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form. It forms crystals in the isometric system very similar to normal rock salt,...
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  • poikiloblast is a porphyroblast mineral with small inclusions of the previous rock in it. From the texture (if any) shown in the inclusion, the deformation history...
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    Pyrope (category Magnesium minerals)
    The mineral pyrope is a member of the garnet group. Pyrope is the only member of the garnet family to always display red colouration in natural samples...
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    Blödite (category Sulfate mineral stubs)
    magnesium sulfate mineral with the formula Na2Mg(SO4)2·4H2O. The mineral is clear to yellow in color often darkened by inclusions and forms monoclinic...
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    heating the surrounding molecular cloud. 60 new minerals were produced and were preserved as inclusions in chondrites. The accretion of dust into asteroids...
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    rock[citation needed]. If a porphyroblastic mineral has small inclusions of minerals within it, the mineral is described as poikiloblastic. This observation...
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