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What are pseudomorphs?

What are pseudomorphs? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of pseudomorph
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Amazing and fantastic forms of representatives of the mineral world are displayed in the exhibitions dedicated to crystals, mineral aggregates, and pseudomorphs.
These are actually pseudomorphs of sericite after cordierite and are found included in hornfels or slate as a product of contact metamorphism.
It pseudomorphs after sérandite and offers some of the most exceptional crystal specimens at Mont Saint-Hilaire in sizes up to 20cm.
Similar malachite masses weighing up to 3 tons as well as malachite pseudomorphs after cuprite crystals to 2 cm have been found in the mine.
They noted that good pseudomorphs of limonite after pyrite, both as cubes and as pyritohedra, are common, especially in bodies of massive pyrite.
In one isolated occurrence, aggregates of small cerussite crystals form pseudomorphs, less than 2 mm across, after an unknown mineral.

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