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Specimens To Supplement the Most Widely-Used College Lab Manual for Physical Geology

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Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.

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Metamorphosed rock showing foliation and rich in hornblende.

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Demonstrates Irregular Breakage

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The powder a mineral produces (streak) is sometimes a different color than the mineral first appears. The 9 samples in this set were carefully chosen to help clearly demonstrate this physical property. A streak plate is also included.

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Examples of Different Forms of Breakage in Minerals

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Unlike many other hardness kits, this kit has only pure crystalline minerals to ensure consistent results when testing.

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Activities to Examine the Appearance of Minerals

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Specially selected thin sections of important rock forming minerals. Set may contain more than one example of the same mineral to depict variations in occurrence and distinct mineral associations.

Slides (12); annite, biotite, clinochlore, fuschite, glauconite, lepidolite, margarite, muscovite, paragonite, phlogopite, sericite, zinnwaldite.

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Powdered bentonite clay 200 mesh, sodium saturated.

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Iron oxide-hydroxide mineral; reddish brown to black color; crystal habit ranges from massive to acicular.

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Explore the characteristics of each of the six crystal systems.

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A variety of tensile strengths and physical traits represented.

Supplier: SCOTT RESOURCES 2, LLC SE

Teach students how to identify minerals with this collection.

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Classroom Collection of Rocks and Minerals Designed for General Classroom Use

Supplier: POLMAN MINERALS

Dive into the colorful world of fluorescent minerals with this all-in-one educational set.

Supplier: Geoscience Industries

Premium introductory collection features 12 palm-sized specimens that depict the variety of colors and forms found in minerals. Each specimen is numbered and keyed to an ID sheet featuring additional data about each item. Includes an information booklet and a magnifier.

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Observe and compare gem minerals

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Add the Color of Fluorescence to Your Studies

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Introduce students to a vast variety of rocks and minerals

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Teach your students how to detect various minerals by their hardness, luster, streak and color.

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Brilliant, colorful display of short and long wave fluorescent minerals will seize your students’ attention. Set contains six specimens, each 1" x 1" average size, stored in a partitioned box with key sheet.

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The Advanced Earth Science Collection features a large, detailed collection of specimens to provide a better understanding of earth’s composition.

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Demonstrate the vivid contrasting colors of fifteen specimens when illuminated under shortwave ultraviolet light. Some specimens are also long wave reactive. Specimen average size: 1" x 1". Comes in compartmented box with key sheet.

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Ideal for Display of a Variety of Specimen Sizes

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Identify all six crystal systems (cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic and hexagonal) with the 15 representative specimens of natural crystals included in this collection. In compartmented box with key sheet listing the locality and crystal form of each specimen.

Supplier: Jensan Educational

Every day the Earth is peppered with rocks from space. The small bits of solar system rock and metal, believed to be fragments of asteroids, burn up in the atmosphere. At night we see them as the swift meteors, or “shooting stars”. Bigger pieces of the same material can plunge all the way through the atmosphere and land on the ground as meteorites. The set includes actual meteorites, one iron and one stony, a specimen of impactite and three minerals which help teach about the composition of meteorites.

Supplier: JULE-ART INC.

Safely prop up flat specimens such as agate or fossils in a thin matrix. The smaller easel supports slabs up to 1/4" thick, the larger easel easily accommodates thicker slabs and crystal plates.

Slab Easel Size: 3"L x 2 1/2"W x 2 1/4"H. Package of four.

Thick Slab Easel Size: 2 1/2"L x 2 1/4"W x 2 3/4"H. Package of four.

Supplier: MINERALAB, LLC

The Universal Specific Gravity Kit is designed to be used with any electronic scale with a minimum capacity of 15 grams and a tare (re-zeroing) function to easily measure the specific gravity of gemstones and minerals.
Just weigh the stone "in air" on the integrated weighing platform of the scale, then without changing the setup, weigh the stone in water by placing it in the underwater weighing pan of the gem holder suspended above the platform. Plug the two values into the specific gravity equation and obtain the specific gravity of your stone.

Includes: lightweight gem holder support and underwater weighing pan, independent, spill-resistant, adjustable beaker support, beaker for filling with water - 100ml capacity, aluminum test weight, stainless steel tweezers, instructions, reproducible Specific Gravity worksheet, table of 300 common minerals/gems sorted by SG, with 6 other properties, including refractive index.

Note: shown with Boreal Balance - not included.