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Chemical Composition: CaF2
Group: -
System: Isometric
Family: Halides
Hardness: 4
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- Cubes, octahedrons and dodecadrons
- Good cleavage
- Colour extremely variable
- Nonmetallic; vitreous luster
- Colourless and completely transparent when pure
- Strongly fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet
light
- Heavy, fragile
- Transparent to translucent
- Insoluble in water, hyddrochloric acid & nitric
acid
- Dissolves in concentrated sulfuric
- Fuses fairly easily
- White streak
- Specific gravity 3.1 - 3.3
- Found in: Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Italy,
Norway, Switzerland, USA
- Uses: in the production of hydrofluoric acid
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