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1 All About Elements: Lithium https://boreal.com/store/ boreal.com | 800-387-9393 2 3 Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental Lithium can float in mineral oil! 2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other tw...

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Working with Insect Cultures Blowflies and Fleshflies Calliphora sp., Sarcophaga bullata In addition to blowflies and fleshflies, the order Diptera also includes mosquitoes, midges, and sawflies. All of these insects provide examples of complete m...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Fluorite Ca F2 Crystallography: Isometric; 4/m32/m. Usually cubic, often as penetration twins twinned on {111}. Other forms rare, commonly in crystals or cleavable masses; also massive, granular. Physical Properties: Cleav...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Hornblende (Ca,Na)2-3 (Mg,Fe,Al)5 SI6 (Si,Al)2 O22 (OH)2 (Amphibole Group) Crystallography: Monoclinic: 2/m. Crystals prismatic usually terminated by {011}. May be columnar to fibrous; coarse-to fine-granular. Physical Pro...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Limonite FeO • OH • nH2O Crystallography: Not crystallized, a mineral colloid. Usually stalactitic, botryoidal, or mammillary; also fibrous, massive, earthy. Physical Properties: Cleavage: None apparent. Hardness: 5.0-5.5....

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Biotite K (Mg, Fe+2)3 (Al, Fe+3) Si3 O10 (OH,F)2 (Mica Group) Crystallography: Monoclinic; 2/m. Usually in irregular foliated masses, and rarely in tabular or short prismatic crystals. Physical Properties: Cle...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Diopside CaMg Si2O6 (Pyroxene Group) Crystallography: Monoclinic; 2/m. Crystals prismatic showing square or 8-sided cross section; also granular, massive. Physical Properties: Cleavage: {110}, at 87° and 93°, ...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Goethite Fe+3 O (OH) (See also Limonite) Crystallography: Orthorhombic; 2/m2/m2/m. Acicular or rarely in distinct prismatic, vertically striated crystals. Also massive, reniform, stalactitic, or in radiating f...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Apatite Ca5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) Crystallography: Hexagonal; 6/m. Commonly occurs in crystals of long prismatic habit; also in mas- sive to compact masses. Physical Properties: Cleavage: {0001} poor. Fracture concho...

ward’s sciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Hematite Fe2 O Crystallography: Hexagonal -R; 32/m. Crystals thick to thin tabular on {0001}; more rarely rhombohe- dral. Also micaceous to platy, botryoidal to reniform, and commonly earthy. Physical Properti...