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== Authority ==
 
== Authority ==
  
* G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, ''Materials Handbook'', McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971  Comment: p. 506
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* G.S.Brady, ''Materials Handbook'', McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971  Comment: p. 506
  
* Jack Odgen, Jack Odgen, ''Jewellery of the Ancient World'', Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York City, 1982
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* Jack Odgen, ''Jewellery of the Ancient World'', Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York City, 1982
  
* Random House, Random House, ''Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language'', Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
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* Random House, ''Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language'', Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
  
* Website address 1, Website address 1  Comment: Olympic Microscopy Resource Center  http://www.olympusmicro.com/galleries/polarizedlight/pages/fuchsitelarge.html  (Accessed Sept. 17, 2005)
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* Website address 1  Comment: Olympic Microscopy Resource Center  http://www.olympusmicro.com/galleries/polarizedlight/pages/fuchsitelarge.html  (Accessed Sept. 17, 2005)
  
 
* Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com  Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsite (Accessed Nov. 2, 2005)
 
* Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com  Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsite (Accessed Nov. 2, 2005)

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Fuchsite

Description

A deep green variety of muscovite. The green color is produced by chromium having replaced some of the aluminum in the usual potassium aluminum silicate matrix. In the U.S., fuchsite is quarried in Shrewsbury VT. Fuschsite provides the coloring for Greenlandite and Indian jade.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Greenlandite; Indian jade; fuchsite (Fr.); Fuchsit, Fuchsitglimmer (Deut.); fuchsiet (Ned.)

Fuchsite

Other Properties

luster = glassy crystals are pleochroic

Authority

  • G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 506
  • Jack Odgen, Jewellery of the Ancient World, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York City, 1982
  • Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

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