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Mineral preparations for microscopy study. The polarizing microscope. A zummary of the properties of light. Refraction. Plane polarized light in minerals. Convergent polarized light. The universal stage. Observational features: Crystalization, color, mode of aggregation, cleavage, and orlentation. Mineral pragments. Systematic: identification. ELements to hydroxides. Carbonates, borates, sulfates, and phosphates. Slicates: framework structures [tectosilicates]. Silicates: chain strucres [inosilicates]. Silicates: single, multiple, and ring SiO4 structures. Silicates: sheet structures and mineraloids. |