تساوریت
Sign in to saveTsavorite or tsavolite is a variety of the garnet group species grossular, a calcium-aluminium garnet with the formula Ca3Al2Si3O12. Trace amounts of vanadium or chromium provide the green color.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Tsavorite
- Mineral.category
- Nesosilicate
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 338760
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- FFFFFF
- Mineral.image
- Graphite-Grossular-Strontiumapatite-d06-195a.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Tsavorite garnet on matrix of silvery black graphite and a minor blue apatite
- Mineral.formula
- Ca3Al2Si3O12
- Mineral.color
- Light to deep green
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.mohs
- 7.0–7.5
- Mineral.refractive
- 1.740
- Mineral.opticalprop
- Single refractive
- Mineral.dispersion
- 0.028
- Mineral.gravity
- 3.60–3.68
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mineral variety
- Subclass of
- grossular
- Image
- Grossular-4jg61a.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tsavorite
- density
- 3.62
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
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