Chloritoid
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chloritoid-320-2791856
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Chloritoid
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Chloritoid is a silicate mineral of metamorphic origin. It is an iron magnesium manganese alumino-silicate hydroxide with formula2Al4Si2O10(OH)4. It occurs as greenish grey to black platy micaceous crystals and foliated masses. Its Mohs hardness is 6.5, unusually high for a platy mineral, and it has a specific gravity of 3.52 to 3.57. It typically occurs in phyllites, schists and marbles. Both monoclinic and triclinic polytypes exist and both are pseudohexagonal. It was first described in 1837 f
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2024-01-10T22:17:58Z
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