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Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.

Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.


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Ward's® Arkose

Catalog Number: (470331-452)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Introductory Rock-Forming Mineral Collection

Catalog Number: (470025-152)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Examples of the More Important Minerals Found in Rocks
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Ward's Science Essentials® Milky Quartz

Catalog Number: (470226-344)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Massive white quartz with a moh's hardness 7.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende

Catalog Number: (470226-342)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Graphite

Catalog Number: (470226-258)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.
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Ward's® Olivine Basalt

Catalog Number: (470331-430)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Kaolin (Powdered)

Catalog Number: (470025-474)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Pure kaolinite powder, 200 mesh.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Cleavage)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.

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Ward's® Gypsum (Satin Spar)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: White, fibrous, silky luster.

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Ward's® Labradorite (Cleavage)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Feldspar group; good cleavages of pure soda lime feldspar; most show twinning and labradorescence.

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Ward's® Sillimanite Gneiss

Catalog Number: (470331-552)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Goethite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Iron oxide-hydroxide mineral; reddish brown to black color; crystal habit ranges from massive to acicular.

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Ward's® Agate

Catalog Number: (470357-982)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: <p>Clear to yellow translucent.</p>

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Ward's® Sericite Schist

Catalog Number: (470331-532)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Hornblende Syenite

Catalog Number: (470331-394)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Coarse Marble

Catalog Number: (470331-512)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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