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Pleochroism and colour of minerals

Color is one of the most wonderful effects in nature. It is an attribute of light and is not a part of the object which appears to be coloured; though all objects, by their chemical or physical composition, determine the number and variety of vibrations passed on or returned to the eye, thus fixing their [...]

Cleavage of minerals

By cleavage is meant the manner in which minerals separate or split off with regularity.

The difference between a break or fracture and a “cleave,” is that the former may be anywhere throughout the substance of the broken body, with an extremely remote chance of another fracture being identical in form, whereas in the [...]