REEDMERGNERITE

 


Chemical formula: NaBSi3O8

Family: Silicates

Status: IMA-GP

Crystal system : Triclinic

Display mineral: NON

 

Luminescence:

Longwave UV (365nm) colors:

         


Green , Greenish ,

Shortwave UV (254nm) colors:

         


Red , Green ,

 

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Phosphorescence (in the common sense of the term) observable with the naked eye:

No data

Comments:

The boron analog of albite, and among the rarest of feldspars.

Activator(s) and spectrum:

No data

No spectrum yet

Best localities for fluorescence (*):

(*)The data are not exhaustive and are limited to a few remarkable localities for fluorescence

Bibliographic reference for luminescence:

Reference for luminescence on the Internet:

  • Fluorescent Properties of Minerals from Darai-Pioz Massif, Tien-Shan Mts, Tajikistan , Dmitriy Belakovskiy, Natalia Pekova and Viktor Rasulov
  • Robbins

Mineralogical reference on the Internet:

  http://www.mindat.org/show.php?name=Reedmergnerite

  http://webmineral.com/data/Reedmergnerite.shtml

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