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BS Element of Month Carbon IA
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All About Elements: Carbon
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Fun Facts About… Carbon 1. Graphine, an allotrope of carbon, is the
strongest, thinnest, and best conductor of heat known to man. It was created by scientists using ordin...
WS Element of Month Fluorine boreal final v2
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All About Elements: Fluorine
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Boreal’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry
The periodic table of elements is an essential part of any chemistr...
Element of Month Lithum Boreal v2
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All About Elements: Lithium
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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...
Spotted Salamanders
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Spotted Salamander
Conditions for Customer Ownership (per USDA Permits) We hold permits allowing us to transport these organisms. To access permit conditions, click here. Never purchase living specimens without having a disposition strategy in pla...
Element of Month Lithum Boreal
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All About Elements: Lithium
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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...
Gneiss
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Gneiss Type:
Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance:
Foliated, often with distinct banding (segregation) of minerals; some preferred orientation in micas (platy) or hornblende (prismatic crystals). Medium t...
Sandstone
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Sandstone Type:
Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Grains generally sand-sized (1/16–2mm), normally sorted and somewhat rounded. May be poorly to well cemented. May also display visible fossils (not par...
Metaconglomerate
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Metaconglomerate Type:
Metamorphic, regional. Texture/Appearance:
Coarse-grained rock containing rounded to subangular clasts greater than 2mm in diameter and distributed in a fine-grained matrix or metamorphi...
Hornblende
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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...
Anorthite
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Anorthite CaAl2Si2O8(An90-100) (Feldspar Group) (see also Plagioclase) Crystallography:
Triclinic; 1. Crystals usually prismatic parallel to c-axis; twinning as in albite. Commonly massive, cleavable, with gra...
Marble
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Marble Type:
Metamorphic; regional and contact. Texture/Appearance:
Fine to coarse-grained; granoblastic to saccharoidal. May appear patched or with streaks or banding that is deformed.
Color: Variable, commonly white, pin...
Shale
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Shale Type:
Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Very fine-grained (clay to silt-sized particles) grains not distinguishable to the naked eye. A relatively soft rock with fine laminae; may display carbona...
Apatite
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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...
Peridotite
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Peridotite Type:
Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Medium to coarse-grained; massive, granular, sometimes porphyritic. Color:
Medium gray to greenish-gray. Mineralogy/Chemistry:
Ultramafic, with mafic minerals greate...
Anorthosite
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Anorthosite Type:
Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Medium to coarse-grained, equigranular with elongated tabular plagioclase. Color:
Dark gray to bluish-gray, sometimes lighter shades. Mineralogy/Chemis...
Pegmatitie
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Pegmatite Type:
Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Very coarse-grained, marked by intergrowth of large (up to 1 cm) crystals. In some instances, individual crystals may grow up to several feet.
Color: Varies; mostly l...
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