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Natural fluorite sphere

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The origin of the name "fluorite" comes from the use of fluorite as a flux to lower the melting point in the processing of steel and aluminium. Miners originally called it fluorspar. Fluorite is also used as a source of fluorine for hydrofluoric acid and fluoridated water. The element fluorine also took its name from fluorite, fluorite being simply a common mineral. Fluorite is used instead of glass in some high-performance telescopes and camera lens elements. Fluorite has very low dispersion, so the diffraction of light is much smaller than with ordinary glass, and in telescopes this allows clear images of astronomical objects, and at high power at that. Fluorite is an interesting gemstone because of its remarkable variety of colors and its attractive glassy shine. Most specimens of fluorite have a single color, but a considerable percentage of fluorites have multiple colors, arranged in bands or zones corresponding to the shapes of the fluorite crystals

Mineral type: Fluorite

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