Sodalite
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sodalite-250-12587704
title:
Sodalite
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Sodalite is a tectosilicate mineral with the formula Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2, with royal blue varieties widely used as an ornamental gemstone. Although massive sodalite samples are opaque, crystals are usually transparent to translucent. Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite. The people of the Caral culture traded for sodalite from the Collao altiplano. First discovered by Europeans in 1811 in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex in Greenland, sodalite did
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Blue tectosilicate mineral
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodalite
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2024-02-16T03:28:28Z
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