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A sorosilicate mineral of complex composition crystallizing in the tetragonal system; also known by the name idocrase. Crystals, frequently well...



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Vesuvianite. (a) Crystal, Christiansand, Norway (specimen from Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College). (b) Crystal habits (after C. Klein and C.S. Hurlbut, Jr., Manual of Mineralogy, 21st ed., 1993)
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