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1 All About Elements: Fluorine http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 Ward’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry The periodic table of elements is an esse...

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1 All About Elements: Beryllium http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Beryllium 1. Prior to being named beryllium, this element was known as glucinium, which originated from the Greek word gly...

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1 All About Elements: Helium https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About…Helium 1. Helium is the second most abundant ele- ment after hydrogen in the universe and solar system. Approximately 11.3% of all atoms in the u...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Schist Type: Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance: Fine to coarse-grained strongly foliated. Granoblastic grading into porphyrob- lastic, with mineral segregation banding usually present. Individual miner...

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1 All About Elements: Carbon http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Carbon 1. Graphine, an allotrope of carbon, is the strongest, thinnest, and best conductor of heat known to man. It was creat...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Malachite Cu2 (CO3) (OH)2 Crystallography: Monoclinic; 2/m. Rarely in distinct crystals; usually prismatic or fine acicular. Commonly in radiating fibers forming botryoidal or stalactitic masses. Also granular...

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ward’s sciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Hematite Fe2 O Crystallography: Hexagonal -R; 32/m. Crystals thick to thin tabular on {0001}; more rarely rhombohe- dral. Also micaceous to platy, botryoidal to reniform, and commonly earthy. Physical Properti...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Galena Pb S Crystallography: Isometric; 4/m32/m. Commonly cubic, sometimes truncated by the octahedron; rarely decahedral and trisoctahedral. Also massive, granular. Physical Properties: Cleavage: {001} perfec...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Copper Cu Crystallography: Isometric; 4/m32/m. Tetrahexahedron faces are common, as are the cube, dodecahedron, and octahedron. Crystals usually malformed and branching; also irregular masses and wire-like for...

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1 All About Elements: Lithium https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental lithium can float in mineral oil. 2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other t...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Metaconglomerate Type: Metamorphic, regional. Texture/Appearance: Coarse-grained rock containing rounded to subangular clasts greater than 2mm in diameter and distributed in a fine-grained matrix or metamorphi...

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Working with Nasonia © 2021 Ward’ s Science. All rights reserved. Rev. 2021 https://www.wardsci.com/store/ Page 2 Working with Nasonia Nasonia vitripennis is a small parasitic wasp that is involved in a symbiotic relationship with a host organism ...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Sandstone Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Grains generally sand-sized (1/16–2mm), normally sorted and somewhat rounded. May be poorly to well cemented. May also display visible fossils (not par...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Augite (Ca,Na) (Mg,Fe,Al,Ti) (Si,Al)2 O6 (Pyroxene Group) Crystallography: Monoclinic; 2/m. Commonly prismatic crystals with rectangular cross-sections, or in granular crystalline masses. Physical Properties: ...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Azurite Cu3 (CO3)2 (OH)2 Crystallography: Monoclinic; 2/m. Habit varies; crystals commonly complex and malformed. Also massive. Physical Properties: Cleavage: {011} perfect, {100} fair. Fracture conchoidal, br...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Bornite (Na,K) AlSi3 O8 (Feldspar Group) Crystallography: Orthorhombic - dipyramidal (2/m 2/m 2/m) Crystals rare; commonly massive. Physical Properties: Cleavage: None. Fracture small conchoidal, uneven; britt...

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