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Formula: Al4[(OH)8.Si4O10]
A clay mineral.
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Clay Minerals
The property of plasticity is evident in a wide array of materials of different mineralogy. In addition, many minerals are considered parent minerals to clays, they weather down to become these clays. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacrite
Nacrite on Wikipedia |
| URLs |
http://www.minersoc.org/pages/gallery/claypix/nacrite/nacrite.html
Nacrite micrograph from minersoc.org |
| URLs |
http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Nacrite.pdf
Nacrite mineralogy |
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