Mineral Specimens
Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.
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Ward's® Oligoclase
Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Graphite
A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende
Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Milky Quartz
Massive white quartz with a moh's hardness 7.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Talc
Talc is the softest know mineral with a moh's hardness of 1, and composed of clay.