Specific gravities of minerals: an index of some recent determinations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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As a first-aid in the identification of non-metallic minerals I have for many years made use of specific gravity, which is a character that can be easily and rapidly determined hy the use of heavy liquids. A small, clean fragment of the mineral to be tested is dropped into one or other of a series of tubes containing methylene iodide with various small known Crystals as indicators. Adding benzene from a dropping-bottle, the density of the liquid is quickly brought to that of the mineral. This preliminary determination of the specific gravity gives a useful clue as to the nature of the mineral—what it may or may not be ; and the same fragment can then be used for confirmatory optical and micro-chemical tests.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 21 , Issue 119 , December 1927 , pp. 337 - 365
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1927
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page 340 note 1 Forty-four values from the last number (no. 118) of the Magazine are not included in this diagram.
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