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Sanidine

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Description
Locality: 
Kakourou, Aridhaia, Pélla, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm
Description

This is one of the best Greek Sanidine specimens that I have ever listed on e-rocks. Not only does it show a perfect, textbook carlsbad twinning, but it is an x-shaped cluster of two twins!

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Sanidine

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drachenfels, Königswinter, Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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