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What is a chabazite?

What is a chabazite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) Any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.
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Besides phacolite, mentioned above, other varieties of chabazite are distinguished.
These early-formed needles often serve as nuclei for the stalactitic growth of other minerals, usually thomsonite or chabazite.
In the spectra of exposed specimens, peaks due to gismondine be came quite prominent including those of albite and chabazite.
The faces on chabazite are typically smooth and lustrous, whereas gmelinite has triangular growths on the crystal faces.
These include Nova Scotia's provincial mineral stilbite, as well as heulandite, analcime, chabazite, gmelinite, natrolite and thomsonite.
Epistilbite, mordenite, stellerite, natrolite, scolecite, mesolite, and chabazite are relatively uncommon, and goosecreekite and yugawaralite are extraordinarily rare.

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