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  2. List of minerals - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles. Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical composition and crystal structure distinguish the various species .

  3. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Fluorescent minerals

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    Collection of various fluorescent minerals under UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light. Cool looking picture, but also encyclopedic. I had no idea about the range of fluoresing rocks. It appears in Fluorescence and Ultraviolet. It was created by User:Hgrobe. Nominate and support. - Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC) support.

  4. Fluorescence - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent minerals emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolet. Fluorescent marine organisms Fluorescent clothes used in black light theater production, Prague Fluorescence is one of two kinds of photoluminescence , the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation .

  5. There are techinically a few pictures of francium floating around, 2 of which are on the element's article (the 300,000 atom heat one and the 200,000 atom light one), and 2 here (the black and white one of 1000 atoms, and the discovery paper). However, none of these depict the atom directly, they are just images of the heat and light emitted by ...

  6. List of minerals by optical properties - Wikipedia

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    Optical properties of common minerals Name Crystal system Indicatrix Optical sign Birefringence Color in plain polars Anorthite: Triclinic: Biaxial (-) 0.013

  7. Fluorite - Wikipedia

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    Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF 2.It belongs to the halide minerals.It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon.

  8. Category:Fluorine minerals - Wikipedia

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    Minerals containing the chemical element Fluorine . Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. F. ... Pages in category "Fluorine minerals"

  9. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...