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Chabazite-Na

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Chabazite-Na

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Description
Locality: 
Aci Castello, Etna, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

specimen with a beautiful exagonal colourles crystal of chabazite-Na on matrix from the type locality. Formerly called herschelite.

c. 6349

Named in 1788 by Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic from the Greek chabazios, tune or melody, one of twenty stones named in the poem Peri lithos, which extolled the virtues of minerals. The poem is ascribed to Orpheus

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chabazite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,K2,Ca,Sr,Mg)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Rupe di Aci Castello, Aci Castello, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

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