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    Garnet is a mineral that forms symmetrical, cube-based crystals most commonly in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron. It has a hardness ranging from 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale and comes in a variety of colors from shades of green, beige, brown, gray, and blue in daylight appearing reddish or purplish/pink in incandescent light. Garnet lacks distinct cleavage planes and has a vitreous to resinous luster when polished.

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    Garnet is a mineral that forms symmetrical, cube-based crystals most commonly in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron. It has a hardness ranging from 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale and comes in a variety of colors from shades of green, beige, brown, gray, and blue in daylight appearing reddish or purplish/pink in incandescent light. Garnet lacks distinct cleavage planes and has a vitreous to resinous luster when polished.

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    Garnet is a mineral that forms symmetrical, cube-based crystals most commonly in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron. It has a hardness ranging from 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale and comes in a variety of colors from shades of green, beige, brown, gray, and blue in daylight appearing reddish or purplish/pink in incandescent light. Garnet lacks distinct cleavage planes and has a vitreous to resinous luster when polished.

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    Garnet

    BIRTHDATE: JANUARY 21, 2007

    CRYSTAL STRUCTURE CRYSTAL HABIT


    Garnets generally produce Garnet favors the dodecahedral (12
    symmetrical, cube-based crystals. The faces) crystal habit, but another
    most common crystal shape among common habit is a trapezohedron
    this group is the rhombic (24 faces). The dodecahedral crystal
    dodecahedron, a twelve-sided crystal can be modified by the
    with diamond shaped (rhombic) faces. trapezohedron producing many
    The basic shape is a trademark for smaller crystal faces.
    garnets, for no other crystal shape is
    so closely associated with a single
    mineral group.

    HARDNESS COLOR AND STREAK


    It varies depending on the type Garnet's color ranges from shades of
    green, beige, brown, gray, and blue in
    and variety of garnet, but daylight, but appears reddish or
    generally ranges from 6.5 to 7.5 purplish/pink in incandescent light. The
    on the Mohs scale. color is due to chromium and possibly
    manganese. The mineral's streak color is
    yellow to brown. There is a purple color
    on the red side, but only two colors are
    needed to make it.

    TRANSPARENCY LUSTRE
    Garnets can range from Garnets typically have a
    transparent to translucent vitreous (glassy) luster when
    polished. The luster of garnets
    ranges from vitreous to
    resinous to subadamantine

    CLEAVAGE CHEMICAL FORMULA

    Garnets do not have distinct


    A B Si O
    cleavage planes

    REFRACTIVE INDEX SPECIFIC GRAVITY

    1.734 - 1.759 between 3.1 and 4.3

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