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It honors the name of the English mineralogist William Whewell (1794-1866). It is a component of kidney stones. The fine twinned crystals result from the reaction of the urine of horses working in the mines with the host rock.
Named in honor of the German chemist George Ulex (1811-1883). We notice a rare property: if the ends of a thick plate are well polished perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of its crystal fibers, they behave like optical fibers. A Printed text placed below appears
Its name comes from the Greek “triplos” for triple, as it has cleavages in three directions, it forms a series with the zwieselite, which is the fluorinated pole. It is found in granitic pegmatites and it was identified in the Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne in France. The
She was named in 1789 by the mineralogist J.G.A. Höpfner in relation to its supposed place of discovery: the Val Tremola in the St. Gotthard massif in Switzerland, but the sample was from another valley … Campolungo. Chemically very close to actinolite (tremolite does not
