Mineral Reference Lookup for
Kabazita
This reference page contains
mineralogic data for Kabazita and folklore and metaphysical
beliefs. If the mineral is an alternate naming of a more common name,
the more common mineral's data is displayed below the list of
synonyms.
Minerals matching Kabazita in the database:
Mineralogical Reference | Kabazita
| Mineral | Kabazita | | Synonym | Chabazite |
| Mineral | CHABAZITE | | Class | Silicates | | Uses | Mineral specimen and chemical filter. | | Color | white pink red Yellow orange | | Luster | Vitreous | | CrystalHabits | include blocky rhombohedral crystals that can look cubic (pseudocubic) because the angle between the faces is nearly 90 degrees.Aggregates form crusts and granular masses.Twinning is common with the penetration twin rotated around the c-axis. | | Fracture | poor in three directions parallel to the faces of the rhombohedron. | | Hardness | 4 | | Streak | white | | Characteristics | Unlike calcite, does not react to acids. | | Occurences | include Poona, India; Berufjord, Iceland; Columbia Co., Oregon, Passaic Co., New Jersey and in Yellowstone Park, USA; Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia; New Zealand, Rhineland, Germany and Switzerland. | | Indicators | crystal habit and symmetry, density, hardness, luster, lack of reaction to acids and associations. | | DensityNote | very light | | Synonyms | Acadiat Acadiata Acadiate Acadiot Acadiota Acadiote Acadiothe Akadialyt Cabasite Chabasie Chabasit Chabazit Chabazita Cubic Zeote Cuboicit Cuboicita Cuboicite Facota Haydenit Haydenita Haydenite Kabazit Kabazita Kabazite Kuboîcit Natronc |
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