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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.

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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Supplier: VWR
Description: Pyroxene group; gray-green, coarse crystalline.

Catalog Number: (470026-494)
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Description: Sharp, brown, twinned, orthorhombic, <sup>3</sup>/<sub>8</sub>– <sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub>".


Supplier: VWR
Description: Good grade, brass-yellow copper ore, massive.

Supplier: VWR
Description: Feldspar group; pink cleavages showing perthitic texture, common potassium feldspar, Mohs’ hardness of 6.

Supplier: VWR
Description: Spinel group; black, dull metallic luster; common iron oxide.

Supplier: VWR
Description: White, massive, coarse crystalline vein, Mohs’ hardness of 7.

Supplier: VWR
Description: Fools gold Brassy color which leaves a black streak.

Catalog Number: (470025-290)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Specimens To Supplement the Most Widely-Used College Lab Manual for Physical Geology


Supplier: VWR
Description: White to gray, medium to coarse-grained, crystalline.

Catalog Number: (470357-432)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Four mineral samples on one slide.

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Catalog Number: (470024-950)
Supplier: VWR
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.


Catalog Number: (470024-886)
Supplier: VWR
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.


Catalog Number: (470024-858)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Great value for the microscopic study of Feldspar minerals.


Catalog Number: (470024-910)
Supplier: VWR
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.


Catalog Number: (470024-880)
Supplier: VWR
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.


Catalog Number: (470025-246)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Five Types of Cohesiveness


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