fibrous mineral
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- fibrous mineral
Silky, Fibrous, and Acicular Minerals. Silky minerals appear to have a parallel arrangement of fine fibers, sometimes giving them the luster of silk. Satin spar, in the photo on the left below, is a variety of gypsum (CaSO 4 •2H 2 O). It gets its name from its fibrous appearance and silky sheen.
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Most often, it is a fibrous mineral, sometimes with radiating crystal sprays. Less often, it is columnar, massive or compact. Prismatic crystals are very rare. The fibrous character is so well developed that a sillimanite variety is called fibrolite, which resembles a group of fibers twisted together.
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Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous minerals. There are six identified types of asbestos that belong to the amphibole and serpentine mineral families. Amphibole Mineral Family Five types of asbestos belong to the amphibole family. These varieties have sharp, straight chain-like structures that are easily inhaled.
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Fibrous mineral material is the inorganic material that produced through the processes such as crushing, purification, and artificial synthesis, where minerals or other inorganic compounds are used as raw materials. The main components are various oxides, e.g., silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, iron xide, magnesium oxide, and calcium oxide. ...
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Asbestos minerals are divided into two major categories: serpentine and amphibole asbestos.The fibrous-asbestiform variety of serpentine is called chrysotile. Chrysotile and amphibole asbestos are both silicates sharing fibrous-asbestiform crystal habits but holding very different structural units at a molecular scale (Whittaker, 1956; …
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Fibrous is a habit name used when minerals occur in very fine fiber-like crystals. They are often so fine that they look like fine hair. The habit also includes aggregates made up of a large number of parallel or radial …
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Fibrous Minerals 339 lassalite (Eastern Pyreness) appear in fibers whose extinction is straight, the elongation sign positive, and the birefringency characterized by grays of the first order. II. Sepiolites Sepiolites appear under three maeroseopie faeies: compaet (Meersehaum), earthy, and fibrous. Of eourse, it was only progressively that the ...
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First Online: 11 April 2023. 3 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Fibrous mineral material is the inorganic material that produced through the processes such as …
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Fibrous veins may be straight, but are more often in curved, angled veins. Some fibrous forms are extremely soft and flexible and resemble wool. Serpentine also pseudomorphs after many minerals, where it form in the same crystal shape as the pseudomorphed mineral. Transparency: Translucent to opaque. Rarely transparent. Specific Gravity: 2.5 ...
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The fibrous form of the mineral transmits light somewhat like a fiber optic cable. When cut across these fibers, it can transmit an image clearly. This is incredibly rare with natural minerals, the only other one known to do so is fibrous selenite. Selenite, however, does not transmit nearly as clear of an image.
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Asbestos is a group of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals which form on serpentine rock in bundles of long, thin fibers. The properties of asbestos have been exploited for various applications – mainly for textile manufacturing – ever since ancient times, with the earliest known use dating back to 4000 B.C. Fibers are very flexible ...
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Mineral - Crystal Habit, Aggregation: The external shape (habit) of well-developed crystals can be visually studied and classified according to the various crystal systems that span the 32 crystal classes. The majority of crystal occurrences, however, are not part of well-formed single crystals but are found as crystals grown together in aggregates. Examples of …
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Rock composed of fibrous actinolite. Pen for scale. Mineral collection of Brigham Young University Department of Geology, Provo, Utah. Photograph by Andrew Silver. No BYU index. This image is in the public domain pursuant to an agreement dated August 10, 2006 between Peter J. Modreski, USGS Communications and Outreach, and the Brigham …
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Moreover, there has been increased awareness recently about the risk posed by fibrous mineral forms including silicas (Otsuki et al., 2016; Sanchez et al., 2009) and zeolite minerals such as erionite (Brook et al., 2020; Patel and Brook, 2021). In this study, the GNS filter archive is used to investigate its potential to reconstruct the ...
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Abstract. There are six elongate mineral particles (EMPs) corresponding to specific dimensional and morphological criteria, known as asbestos. Responsible for …
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Mineral Mineralogical Category Comments; Natural: Chalcotrichite: Fibrous cuprite: This ''mineral'' is probably a fibrous variety of cuprite (copper oxide). Rare. Chlorites: Layer silicates: Many chlorites are known to have …
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Although fibrous minerals are represented by two species, sepiolite and palygorskite, they are sufficiently alike to be treated in a single chapter. Keywords. Ferric Iron; Zeolitic Water; Tetrahedral Group; Fibrous Mineral; Fibrous Variety; These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the ...
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Tiger's Eye, a popular yet inexpensive gemstone, is a pseudomorph of compact Quartz after the fibrous mineral Crocidolite.It is formed when the Quartz takes over and dissolves the Crocodolite, leaving the Quartz in a finely fibrous and chatoyant form. When polished, it's silky luster creates a beautiful chatoyant effect of moving layers of brown and yellow …
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Tremolite is a fibrous mineral, one of those which were given the commercial name asbestos. These materials are silicates which contain magnesium and iron. Tremolite …
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As with the six regulated asbestos minerals (chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite), the zeolite mineral, erionite, can exhibit a fibrous morphology. When fibrous erionite is aerosolized and inhaled, it has been linked to cases of lung cancers, such as malignant mesothelioma. Importantly, fibrous erionite appears to …
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Crocidolite was one of the least desired forms of asbestos, but it still stands as one of the world's most dangerous minerals. Credit: James St John under CC BY 2.0. Crocidolite, also known as blue asbestos, can cause fatal diseases such as lung and mesothelial cancer. This fibrous mineral can easily form dusts, often inhaled by those …
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The structure of silicate minerals may be fibrous or non-fibrous. The terms 'asbestos' or 'asbestiform minerals' refer only to those silicate minerals that occur in polyfilamentous bundles, and that are composed of extremely flexible fibres with a relatively small diameter and a large length. These fibre bundles have splaying
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The term asbestos refers to a group of serpentine (chrysotile) and amphibole (amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite) minerals with a fibrous habit. Their chemical-physical properties make them one of the most important inorganic materials for industrial purposes and technological applications. However, the extraction, use and …
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Tremolite is a fibrous mineral, one of those which were given the commercial name asbestos. These materials are silicates which contain magnesium and iron. Tremolite has the composition Ca 2 (Mg,Fe) 5 Si 8 O 22 (OH) 2. This sample is about 15x3 cm and is from Corse, France. These samples of tremolite show that it has other habits of formation ...
به خواندن ادامه دهیدGlossary of Terms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL. Fibrous. Aggregate describing a mineral constructed of fine, usually parallel threads. Some fibrous minerals contain cloth-like flexibility, …
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There are six elongate mineral particles (EMPs) corresponding to specific dimensional and morphological criteria, known as asbestos. Responsible for health issues including asbestosis, and malignant mesothelioma, asbestos has been well researched. Despite this, significant exposure continues to occur throughout the world, potentially …
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If fibers are coarse, we may describe a mineral as fibrous instead of silky. Ulexite, a hydrated borate mineral shown in the photo on the right above, is a classic example of a fibrous mineral. In the large photo, …
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