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Fluorite
Title
Fluorite
Description
Formula
CaF2
Structure
Non-silicate
Crystal System
Crystal system: cubic
Physical Properties
Colour in hand specimen: extremely variable: colourless, white, yellow, green, blue and purple most common
Cleavage: perfect octahedral, up to four visible at one time, breaks into dipyramids
Hardness: 4
Optical Properties
Colour in plane polarised light: colourless, pale green or pale violet
Pleochroism: none
Relief: low
Mineral Specimens
M560 Fluorite
Derbyshire
Cubic fluorite crystals
Generally very variable; in this case white to purple
Glassy lustre
Hardness 4
Octahedral cleavage
Mineral Name
fluorite
Citation
“Fluorite,” 1A Collections, accessed April 9, 2024, https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/67.