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Definition of Willemite

Willemite
Willemite Wil"lem*ite, n. [From Willem I., king of the Netherlands.] (Min.) A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.

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- Willemite is a zinc silicate mineral (Zn2SiO4) and a minor ore of zinc. It is highly fluorescent (green) under shortwave ultraviolet light. It occurs...
- red-colored, mostly due to iron and manganese dopants, and ****ociated with willemite and franklinite. Zincite crystals can be grown artificially, and synthetic...
- minerals, many of which are fluorescent. More commonly, it occurs with willemite, calcite, and zincite. In these rocks, it forms as disseminated small...
- mine incrustations. It occurs ****ociated with smithsonite, hemimorphite, willemite, cerussite, aurichalcite, calcite and limonite. It was first described...
- constitute zinc ore. It commonly occurs in ****ociation with hemimorphite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, aurichalcite and anglesite...
- location. The mineral ****ociation (****emblage) from Franklin includes willemite, zincite and franklinite. During the mid-to-late 19th century the furnace...
- classification is 09.A –examples include: Phenakite group Phenakite – Be2SiO4 Willemite – Zn2SiO4 Olivine group Forsterite – Mg2SiO4 Fayalite – Fe2SiO4 Tephroite...
- Zinc silicate may refer to: Hemimorphite, a zinc sorosilicate Willemite, a zinc neosilicate Sauconite, a zinc phyllosilicate This set index article lists...
- Vivianite Vlasovite Wardite Wavellite Weloganite Whewellite Wilkeite Willemite Witherite Wollastonite Wulfenite Wurtzite Xonotlite Yugawaralite Zektzerite...
- UV light, scheelite, a tungsten ore, fluoresces a bright sky-blue, and willemite, a minor ore of zinc, fluoresces green (Ball 1938: 501). The third luminous-gem...