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Definition of Adularia

Adularia
Adularia Ad`u*la"ri*a, n. [From Adula, a mountain peak in Switzerland, where fine specimens are found.] (Min.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

Meaning of Adularia from wikipedia

- Drachenfels, Germany. The lower-temperature polymorph of KAlSi3O8 is microcline. Adularia is a low temperature form of either microcline or orthoclase originally...
- stars. The most common moonstone is of the orthoclase feldspar mineral adularia, named for an early mining site near Mt. Adular in Switzerland, now the...
- Sanidine, the high-temperature form of pot****ium feldspar (K,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 Adularia, a more ordered low-temperature variety of orthoclase or partially disordered...
- or blue lusters are produced. This effect is most typically produced by adularia, a K-feldspar or orthoclase (KAlSi3O8), from which the name is derived...
- at Dalnegorsk, Russia Chloritized bladed crystals of axinite forming on adularia from the Swiss Alps Tinzenite on calcite, 4.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm. Wessels Mine...
- Anorthite Anorthoclase Amazonite Bytownite Celsian Microcline Moonstone Adularia (var.) Rainbow (var.) Orthoclase Unakite Plagioclase Albite Labradorite...
- of long prismatic habit in cavities in epidote schist, with asbestos, adularia, calcite, and apatite; the Ala valley and Traversella in Piedmont; Arendal...
- Crystal of titanite with adularia and minor clinochlore on matrix...
- of calcite and epidote Bright green, twinned crystal of titanite with adularia and minor clinochlore on matrix Olive-green titanite spear point set in...
- High-grade (bonanza) gold ore, brecciated quartz-adularia rhyolite. Native gold (Au) occurs in this rock as colloform bands, partially replaces breccia...