Greenland Blue Sodalite, Analcime - under ultraviolet light
🔸Orange: Sodalite
️🔹️Blue: Analcime
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🔹️️Sodalite
- is a royal blue tectosilicate mineral widely used as an ornamental gemstone.
Color: Blue, Purple.
Chemical formula: Na₈(Al₆Si₆O₂₄)Cl₂
🔸️️Analcime or analcite
- is a white, gray, or colorless tectosilicate mineral.
- Analcime consists of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate in cubic crystalline form.
Color: White, colorless, gray, pink, greenish, yellowish
Chemical formula: NaAlSi₂O₆·H₂O.
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