Benitoite
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benitoite-187-11876912
title:
Benitoite
text:
Benitoite is a rare blue barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. It forms in low temperature, high pressure environments typical of subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries. Benitoite fluoresces under short wave ultraviolet light, appearing bright blue to bluish white in color. The more rarely seen clear to white benitoite crystals fluoresce red under long-wave UV light. It was discovered in 1907 by prospector James M. Couch in the San Benito M
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benitoite
date created:
2004-08-20T00:53:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T16:39:06Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16