Calcite Tower
- Regular
- $9.00
- Sale
- $9.00
- Regular
- $22.00
- Unit Price
- per
Calcite Properties |
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What is Calcite? |
Calcite is one of the most common minerals in the world. Calcite is also a major component of limestone, marble, tuff, travertine, and chalk. Calcite may be mixed with clay to form marl. Calcite is also a component of the water scale in kettles, as well as boiler scale in hard water areas, and calcite also forms the skeleton and shell of shells. |
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Formula |
CaCO3 |
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Crystal System |
Trigonal |
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Crystal Habit |
Most calcite is crystalline, while the crystal shapes are variable, the most diverse of all minerals. |
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Color |
Typically colorless or white - may have shades of various colors |
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Luster |
Vitreous and Resinous. |
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Streak |
White |
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Hardness |
3 |
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Cleavage |
Perfect |
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Fracture |
Conchoidal. |
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Tenacity |
Brittle |
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Density |
2.71 g/㎝³ |
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Other properties |
May phosphorescence, thermoluminescence and frictional luminescence |
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Healing |
None known. |
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Origins |
England; Iceland; Germany; Harz Mountains; Mumbai; India, Keweenaw County; Franklin |
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