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Crystal Guide / All families

Editorial material shelf

Hydroxides.

Hydroxide species, distinct from the carbonate and silicate shelves.

Keep each chapter’s scientific identity: a family, species, variety, trade label, rock and fossil are different kinds of names.

Brucite from Texas, Pennsylvania; GeoDIL reference photograph

Brucite ↗

Mineral species

Brucite is magnesium hydroxide and may occur as white, pale green or yellow material. Compact or rounded growth can have a gentle waxy-to-pearly appearance.

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