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Euclase, an equant crystal
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PostPosted: Sep 19, 2013 10:13    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crysal  

This is a fascinating discussion. To me it appears that all of the edges are abraded to some degree, so I am inclined to believe that this crystal spent part of its life in a sack with other pieces and abrasion of the edges was the result.
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PostPosted: Sep 19, 2013 10:44    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crysal  

John S. White wrote:
...To me it appears that all of the edges are abraded to some degree, so I am inclined to believe that this crystal spent part of its life in a sack with other pieces and abrasion of the edges was the result.

I agree
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PostPosted: Sep 19, 2013 20:57    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crystal  

Good idea Pete, to make drawings with different Miller indices as mine. From a scientific point of few, a visual identification is some problematic but our drawings are giving a good imagination of the shape and habit of this crystal.

Abrasion or dissolving - thats the question.
In picture 2br981xx you can see a small cavity caused from a hit and some material chipped away. Why are not this edge and face affected (2c2r186x)? I my opinion the face with this small cavities is very interesting (4r200x). From dissolving? It would be interesting to see this cavities in an electron microscope. Roger, have you an electron microscope at home? My one is placed near the refrigerator but my neighbor says, that is a coffee machine. Hmm, I wonder why I can't get good results by my research of my minerals..... ;)
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PostPosted: Sep 20, 2013 11:01    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crystal  

Hi Pete, Martin, List,
Yes, this euclase specimen is interesting. But it is a bit small and some faces are difficult to discern.
Pete’s conclusion is excellent and the dihedral angles between the main faces corroborate.
If you look at the profile according to the b axis (the second Pete‘s drawing), we must admit that the four apexes are modified by very small faces. I emit an assumption of additional faces.
Another difficulty comes from a slight asymmetry growth, distorting precisely these faces of these tops.
No Martin, I do not have an electron microscope, but I have access to the laboratory of Mineralogy at the University of Liège (I am a retired chemist).
Warm thank you to Pete and Martin for helping me.
Roger.
PS: Here are two other photos.
The cavities are as negative of other parasitic lost crystals.



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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2013 14:54    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crystal  

Hello Roger!

I think your drawing shows a good conclusion of our efforts. I love such questions about crystallography and thank you for making so much photographs from this small xtl.

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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2013 16:04    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crystal  

Hi Martin,
It's really nice to encourage me. Many thanks.
I think Pete has summarized our thoughts. I found this sentence on Pete's Mindat page.
“I mourn the loss of awareness/knowledge of morphological crystallography among mineral collectors, geologists, mineralogists, and even practicing crystallographers. I find the shapes of crystals to be among the most elegant manifestations of the self-organizing principles of our world!”

It is obvious that the crystalline organization is one of the first examples of the organization of matter that ultimately by how much more complex processes, have led to life.
From a more pragmatic point of view, I really appreciate a good mineral that when I photographed its best profile and / or writing an article to describe it.
At the next essay ...
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PostPosted: Jan 06, 2014 17:28    Post subject: Re: Euclase, an equant crystal  

Here is another interesting euclase.
Colors are correct. One sometimes has enhancements of hues with modern lamps. It should work with a spectrophotometer to control everything.
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