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Fluorite

Scope note

Multi-colored transparent or translucent material containing calcium fluoride, commonly occurring in massive crystalline cube form with perfect octahedral cleavage, used as flux, as a source of fluoride compound, and in the preparation of opalescent and opaque glass and vitreous enamel.

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Term type

AAT
Material

Getty AAT term number

300011095

Broader Terms used

mineral

Term used for

fluorspar

Created

13yrs ago

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