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450 Carat Delicate Brown Thomsonite Balls w/ Orange Stilbite Cluster Mineral Natural Zeolite Gemstone Crystal Mineral Specimen - India
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- You will receive exactly this Thomsonite Cluster - 66mm x 61mm x 40mm / 2 5/8 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 Inches; 90g / 3.2 oz / 450 Carat (see photo, stand not included)!
- Thomsonite was created from lava flows of the Keweenawan Period, over 600 million years ago. Gases trapped within the lava and seams between the lava flows turned into hollow pockets when the lava hardened. Over hundreds of thousands of years, these hollow openings filled and solidified, forming Thomsonite.
- Thomsonite is one of the rarer zeolites. It forms tight acicular radiating clusters and sphericules as well as some blockier crystals that are found in the vesicles or bubbles of volcanic rock as are most other zeolites. Natrolite, another zeolite, is usually square in cross section but is otherwise difficult to distinguish from thomsonite. The color is usually colorless or white, but a few specimens have shown a lovely yellow color.
- Zeolites are known to have an openness about their structure that allows large ions and molecules to reside and actually move around inside the overall framework. The structure actually contains open channels that allow water and large ions to travel into and out of the crystal structure. The size of these channels controls the size of the molecules or ions and therefore a zeolite can act as a chemical sieve, allowing some ions to pass through while blocking others.
- Color: White, beige, cream, light yellow, light gray, light brown, light orange, light pink. Sometimes banded in multicolored radiating rings. Hardness: 5 - 5.5