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What is an adularia?

What is an adularia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as colorless to white prismatic crystals in cavities in metamorphic rocks. Some specimens reflect a bluish sheen along crystal faces. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and adularia with this property is called moonstone. (See sanidine).
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Gangue minerals include quartz, calcite, adularia, minor fluorite, and trace amounts of pyrite, marcasite, and chalcopyrite.
The adularia is a variety of adularia, transparent in translucent, in opalescent and pearly images.
The person who he's seeing the future for has to hold Adularia until it warms up.
Tiny adularia rhombs are also present on the matrix of a specimen showing an unusual association of wire gold with scheelite.
Brookite is best known from alpine-cleft-type occurrences, where it is round with anatase, rutile, titanite, quartz, adularia, albite, hematite, calcite, and chlorite.
Specular hematite, albite, adularia, and quartz fill voids and form veins, and also occur as granulated fragments in the groundmass.

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