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Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.

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Ward's Science Essentials® Selenite

Description: Selenite is a Clear gypsum mineral with a moh's hardness of 2.

Calcite (Cleavage)

Description: Pure translucent to white, rhombic cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 3.

Ward's® Mineral Research Grade Collection

Description: Ward's® highest quality and purest mineral offerings.

Ward's® Oligoclase

Description: Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.

Augite

Description: Pyroxene group; dark green, pure cleaved fragments.

Catalog Number: (470025-428)

Montmorillonite

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Description: Powdered bentonite clay 200 mesh, sodium saturated.

Ward's® Malachite

Description: Good grade, green, massive; copper ore.

Calcite (Iceland Spar)

Description: Clear rhombs showing double refraction.

Ward's® Olivine (Fine)

Description: Nearly pure, green crystalline forsterite.

Catalog Number: (470024-936)

Ward's® Dolomite

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Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.