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Heulandite (calcium, sodium, potassium alumino-silicate with water) View 1 (front)

Stuart Humphreys

Australian Museum

Australian Museum
Sydney, Australia

An attractive group of lustrous, orange, diamond-shaped crystals arranged in radiating sheaves. Heulandite is in the group of minerals called 'zeolites', from Greek words meaning 'boiling stone', they froth and bubble when losing water under strong heating. Zeolites have an unusual internal structure of parallel channels which makes them useful as molecular filters.

View of heulandite from above

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  • Title: Heulandite (calcium, sodium, potassium alumino-silicate with water) View 1 (front)
  • Creator: Stuart Humphreys
  • Location: Portobello Station, Tambar Springs, NSW, Australia, Portobello Station, Tambar Springs, NSW, Australia
  • Contributor: Photographer: Stuart Humphreys, Photographer: Stuart Humphreys
Australian Museum

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