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Quartz With Petroleum Enhydros

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Quartz With Petroleum Enhydros

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Description
Locality: 
Buhirmas, Koraro, Lasbela District, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

A doubly terminated, transparent quartz crystal with numerous hydrocarbon enhydros. These quartz crystals containing petroleum oil fluoresce a strong bluish-white colour under longwave ultra-violet light. The final two images taken in daylight show this fluoresence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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