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antozonite
A dark-violet to black semiopaque variety of fluorite that emits a strong odor when crushed; commonly causing nausea among miners, perhaps owing to free fluorine; produced by alpha bombardment, as in the inner bands of halos surrounding uraninite and thorite inclusions.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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