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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: Avantor
Description: Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Feldspar group; good cleavages of pure soda lime feldspar; most show twinning and labradorescence.

Catalog Number: (470025-474)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Pure kaolinite powder, 200 mesh.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: White, fibrous, silky luster.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Classic, white chalk, massive; from Cliffs of Dover, England.

Catalog Number: (470026-364)
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Description: Beautiful, blue, hexagonal, sapphire crystals. Average size: 3/8". Madagascar.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Spinel group; iron-black, massive; natural magnet.

Catalog Number: (470024-928)
Supplier: Avantor
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.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Classic “peacock” aluminum ore.

Catalog Number: (470025-258)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Metamorphosed rock showing foliation and rich in hornblende.

Catalog Number: (470226-356)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Hemalite is a Massive, dense red to gray, classic example of iron ore.


Catalog Number: (470226-354)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Apatite is a gemmy blue phosphate mineral, mohs hardness 5.


Catalog Number: (470226-336)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Kaolin is a white clay mineral that has vast industrial uses


Catalog Number: (470024-954)
Supplier: Avantor
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.


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