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    Opal is comprised of tiny silica spheres formed when silica-rich water seeps into cracks in the Earth's crust, giving it an amorphous crystal structure. While fundamentally colorless, opal often contains impurities that give it body colors ranging from yellow and red to black. It is a silica mineral with a hardness of 5.5-6.0 on the Mohs scale.

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    Opal is comprised of tiny silica spheres formed when silica-rich water seeps into cracks in the Earth's crust, giving it an amorphous crystal structure. While fundamentally colorless, opal often contains impurities that give it body colors ranging from yellow and red to black. It is a silica mineral with a hardness of 5.5-6.0 on the Mohs scale.

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    What is

    Opal?

    comprised of tiny silica spheres,


    formed when silica-rich water
    seeps into deep cracks and
    voids in the Earth's crust.

    fundamentally colourless, but such


    material is rarely found. Disseminated
    impurities generally impart to opal
    various dull body colours that range
    from the yellows and reds derived from
    iron oxides to black from manganese
    oxides and organic carbon.

    Mineral Class: ineral Class:


    Hardness:
    Silica Mineral ilica
    5.5 to 6.0
    Mineral
    Crystal Habit: Chemical Formula:

    Amorphous SiO2·nH2O
    Name origin: Density:
    From the Old Indian upala - 1.9 - 2.3, Average =
    "precious stone 2.09
    Diaphaneity: Luminescence:
    Fluorescent, Short
    Transparent to translucent to UV=greenish yellow, Long
    opaque UV=white

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