idocrase การใช้

• Idocrase is an older synonym sometimes used for gemstone-quality vesuvianite.
• Typical skarn minerals include pyroxene, garnet, idocrase, wollastonite, actinolite, magnetite or hematite, and epidote.
• It is found naturally as a translucent emerald-green crystal formed in thin sheets near the boundaries of idocrase or chlorite crystals.
• Several other names have been applied to this species, one of which, " idocrase " by R . J . Haiiy ( 1796 ), is now in common use.
• A banded and mottled calc-silicate hornfels occurring with the limestone at Derry Falls, west-northwest of Braemar, has yielded malacolite, wollastonite, brown idocrase, garnet, sphene and hornblende.