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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.
Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende Schist
Supplier: Avantor
Metamorphosed rock showing foliation and rich in hornblende.
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Ward's® Streak and Color Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Clear examples of a key method of identification.
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Introductory Rock-Forming Mineral Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Examples of the More Important Minerals Found in Rocks
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Ward's® Classroom Mineral Collection
Supplier: Avantor
A fascinating and colorful classroom mineral study set.
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Mica Set
Supplier: Avantor
Specially selected thin sections of important rock forming minerals. Set may contain more than one example of the same mineral to depict variations in occurrence and distinct mineral associations.
Slides (12); annite, biotite, clinochlore, fuschite, glauconite, lepidolite, margarite, muscovite, paragonite, phlogopite, sericite, zinnwaldite.
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Ward's® Olivine (Coarse)
Supplier: Avantor
Fresh Green forsterite, classic “twin sisters” dunite.
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Fracture Collection
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Demonstrates irregular breakage of minerals.
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Ward's® Mineral Research Grade Collection
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Ward's® highest quality and purest mineral offerings.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock-Forming Minerals Set
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Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks
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Ward's® Muscovite (Cleavage)
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Mica group; cut sheets showing basal cleavages. Books and sheets in bulk pack.
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Ward's® Pleochroism Slide Thin Section
Supplier: Avantor
Four mineral samples on one slide
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Staurolite
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Sharp, brown, twinned, orthorhombic, 3/8– 1/2".
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Ward's® Caliche
Supplier: Avantor
Hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other material such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
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Epidote
Supplier: Avantor
Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.
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Ward's® Titanite
Supplier: Avantor
Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.
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Ward's® Topaz
Supplier: Avantor
Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.
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Corundum (Sapphire)
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Beautiful, blue, hexagonal, sapphire crystals. Average size: 3/8". Madagascar.
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Ward's® Euhderal Fluorite Pack
Supplier: Avantor
Essential for teaching mineralogy and atomic structure.
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Ward's® Mini Chondrite Starter Pack
Supplier: Avantor
Give your students a piece of outerspace.
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Nepheline
Supplier: Avantor
Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.
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Ward's® Refractive Index Immersion Slide Set
Supplier: Avantor
Ten New Slides in a Complete Teaching Set
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Ward's® Crystal Form Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Basic Set of Natural Crystals
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Premium Mineral Collection
Supplier: Geoscience Industries
Premium introductory collection features 12 palm-sized specimens that depict the variety of colors and forms found in minerals. Each specimen is numbered and keyed to an ID sheet featuring additional data about each item. Includes an information booklet and a magnifier.
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Short and Long Wave Fluorescent Minerals Set
Supplier: Geoscience Industries
Brilliant, colorful display of short and long wave fluorescent minerals will seize your students’ attention. Set contains six specimens, each 1" x 1" average size, stored in a partitioned box with key sheet.
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Single Crystal Substrates, Thermo Scientific
Supplier: Thermo Scientific Chemicals
A single crystal is a material in which the crystal lattice of the entire sample is continuous and unbroken to the edges of the sample, with no grain boundaries
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Introductory Fluorescent Mineral Collection
Supplier: Skywill Far East Industries
Both shortwave and longwave fluorescent minerals included.