adularia

adularia
/aj'euh lair"ee euh/, n. Mineral.
a sometimes opalescent variety of orthoclase formed at a low temperature.
[1790-1800; < It < F adulaire, named after Adula a mountain group in Switzerland; see -ARY]

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      a feldspar mineral and potassium aluminosilicate (KAlSi3O8). It commonly forms colourless, glassy, prismatic, twinned crystals in low-temperature veins of felsic plutonic rocks and in cavities in crystalline schists. Typical occurrences include the schists of the Alps. Some adularia show an opalescent play of colours and are called moonstone.

      Adularia and orthoclase are similar, but adularia is pseudo-orthorhombic. Slight differences in refractive indices, specific gravity, temperature of their conversion to sanidine (a high-temperature form of potassium feldspar), and axial angle, however, indicate the existence of two different species.

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