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    Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals that is commonly used as a general term for dark amphiboles. It has a monoclinic crystal system and forms long, slender prismatic crystals. Hornblende has a variable specific gravity between 3.0-3.47 depending on its composition, is dark green or brown in color, has a vitreous lustre and white streak, and is a common constituent of igneous and metamorphic rocks such as amphibolite.

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    Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals that is commonly used as a general term for dark amphiboles. It has a monoclinic crystal system and forms long, slender prismatic crystals. Hornblende has a variable specific gravity between 3.0-3.47 depending on its composition, is dark green or brown in color, has a vitreous lustre and white streak, and is a common constituent of igneous and metamorphic rocks such as amphibolite.

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    Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals that is commonly used as a general term for dark amphiboles. It has a monoclinic crystal system and forms long, slender prismatic crystals. Hornblende has a variable specific gravity between 3.0-3.47 depending on its composition, is dark green or brown in color, has a vitreous lustre and white streak, and is a common constituent of igneous and metamorphic rocks such as amphibolite.

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    Hornblende

    Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals. It is not recognized mineral in its own right, but the name is used as a general or field term, to refer to a dark amphibole.

    Diagnostic Properties
    Crystal System Monoclinic, crystal long, slender and prismatic.

    Cleavage

    Perfect, prismatic, parallel to [1 1 0]; Prismatic.

    Colour Hardness

    Dark green, dark brown, black.

    5.5 to 6

    Sp. Gravity Lustre Streak

    3.0 to 3.47 (variable, depending on composition). Vitreous. White, with greenish tint.

    Composition Highly variable and complex; broadly an aluminous amphibole.

    Optical

    It is optically(-).

    Occurrence

    Hornblende is a common rock-forming mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Amphibolite, a metamorphic group of rock may be made up chiefly of hornblende. Because of their widespread occurrence, hornblende and augite are taken as representative minerals from the amphibole and pyroxene groups respectively.

    Varieties

    About half a dozen varieties of hornblende have been differentiated on the basis of variation in its chemical composition.

    AKSA ESTHER THOMAS CE A S3 ROLL NO: 5

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