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 Post subject: Re: What am I?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:22 pm 
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:35 pm 
Too late, Osman. Marcm got it.

Baddeleyite.

But can you - or anyone - name the other Ugly Sister? Cinderella is, of course, CZ.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:04 pm 
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:58 pm 
Osman khattak wrote:
Arkelite


You sure?

MINDAT gives the Arkelite status (according to IMA) as questionable/doubtful. It also categorises it as isometric. To me, this means that it is a (very small but natural) form of Cubic Zirconia. Certainly such was identified prior to the commercial production of CZ/Fianite.

The other Ugly Sister I had in mind was the tetragonal phase of Zirconium Dioxide. This is obtained in commercial bulk from Zircon sands (ZrSiO4) but is also found in uncommercial quantities in nature - but I do not know if it has an approved mineral name. Commercially obtained from Zircon, its the feed material for the production of CZ.


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