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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.
Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende
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Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.
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Ward's® Sphalerite (Crystalline)
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Dark brown to black; polycrystalline zinc ore.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Basic Minerals Collection
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Introduce your students to a broad selection of minerals.
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Almandine Garnet
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Exemplary display of hexoctahedral crystal shape.
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Ward's® Know Your Minerals Collection
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Perfect for Independent Study or Class Tests.
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Ward's® Malachite
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Good grade, green, massive; copper ore.
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Ward's® Quartz (Chert)
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Light gray, compact, opaque, microcrystalline.
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Anorthoclase
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Feldspar group; greenish gray alkali feldspar, coarse crystalline, some iridescence.
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Ward's® Oligoclase
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Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Fluorite
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Fluorite is Green Halide mineral with moh's hardness 4.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Kaolin
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Kaolin is a white clay mineral that has vast industrial uses
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral Collection
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Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties
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Ward's Science Essentials® Apatite
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Apatite is a gemmy blue phosphate mineral, mohs hardness 5.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Graphite
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A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.
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Calcite (Chalk)
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Classic, white chalk, massive; from Cliffs of Dover, England.
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Ward's® Caliche
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Hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other material such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
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Ward's® Topaz (Crystals)
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Gemmy, sherry-colored crystals and sections approximately 3/8– 1/2"
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Ward's® Olivine (Coarse)
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Fresh Green forsterite, classic “twin sisters” dunite.
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Augite
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Pyroxene group; dark green, pure cleaved fragments.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Pyrite
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Fools gold Brassy color which leaves a black streak.
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Ward's® Coals, Set Of 4
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A classroom set that covers the major types of coal.
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Fracture Collection
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Demonstrates irregular breakage of minerals.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Selenite
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Selenite is a Clear gypsum mineral with a moh's hardness of 2.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Talc
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Talc is the softest know mineral with a moh's hardness of 1, and composed of clay.
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Ward's® Mineral Research Grade Collection
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Ward's® highest quality and purest mineral offerings.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende Schist
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Metamorphosed rock showing foliation and rich in hornblende.
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Ward's® Science Essentials® Dolomite
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White to gray, medium to coarse-grained, crystalline.