. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. 126 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM dated with sulfur and other eruptive minerals. Beautiful crys- tals have been obtained from Girgenti, Sicily. It also occurs at several localities on Lake Erie; at Lockport, Ohaumont bay. Rossie and Schoharie N. Y.: in Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Tennessee, Kansas, Texas and California, and at Kingston Canada. As a source of strontium nitrate, celestite is much used in the manufacture of fireworks. Crocoite PbCr04 Crocoite is a lead chromate occurring in monoclinic crystals of prismatic habit and in imperfectly columnar an
. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. 126 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM dated with sulfur and other eruptive minerals. Beautiful crys- tals have been obtained from Girgenti, Sicily. It also occurs at several localities on Lake Erie; at Lockport, Ohaumont bay. Rossie and Schoharie N. Y.: in Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Tennessee, Kansas, Texas and California, and at Kingston Canada. As a source of strontium nitrate, celestite is much used in the manufacture of fireworks. Crocoite PbCr04 Crocoite is a lead chromate occurring in monoclinic crystals of prismatic habit and in imperfectly columnar and granular masses. It is of a bright hyacinth-red to orange-yellow color. The luster is adamantine. Brochantite Brochantite is a basic sulfate of copper commonly found in acicular orthorhombic crystals or drusy crusts of an emerald green or blackish green color and vitreous luster. Gypsum (selenite, alabaster) CaS04-2IL0 Gypsum is a hydrous calcium sulfate. The crystals are monoclinic and commonly quite simple in form. fig. 245 and 246 representing types of common Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum; New York State Museum. Albany : New York State Education Dept
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