Mineralpedia Details for Epistilbite
Epistilbite
- Formula
- Ca3(Si18Al6)O48ยท16H2O
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic, Spherical, Twinning Common
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- white, yellowish white, reddish white, brownish white
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic - Pedial
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 4-5
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Epistilbite from Bombay, Maharashta, India
Stout clear to white, lustrous, thick tabulr crystal perched nicely in large zeolite vug on basalt matrix. This zeolite is the dimorph of Goosecreekite.
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