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What is a pseudomorph?

What is a pseudomorph? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A deceptive, irregular, or false form; specifically:
    1. (geology, mineralogy) A mineral that formed by replacement of an existing mineral (or organic matter) such that the new mineral has the appearance and dimensions of the original.
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The most common secondary uranium mineral at the mine, it is typically associated with sooty black organic material and may pseudomorph it.
It is sometimes found as a pseudomorph of sérandite crystals usually coated by a very fine dark green powdery chlorite-group mineral.
It is a pseudomorph after iolite, and consists mainly of hydrous aluminium silicate.
Berthierine, a member of the kaolinite-serpentine group, is found as pseudomorphs at MSH. It is a pseudomorph after a mineral with a layered structure, possibly some mineral of the mica group.
Pseudomorph, mineral formed by chemical or structural change of another substance, though retaining its original external shape.
In the formation of a pseudomorph by substitution, the original substance has been gradually removed and simultaneously replaced by another.

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