Scheelite, the Glossary
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Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4.[1]
Table of Contents
94 relations: Absorption spectroscopy, Active laser medium, Andradite, Apatite, Arizona, Barium, Birefringence, Bohemia, Calcium, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Cassiterite, Cathode-ray tube, Central Otago, Chemical formula, Chemical synthesis, Cleavage (crystal), Conchoidal fracture, Crystal, Crystal habit, Crystal system, Crystal twinning, Cubic zirconia, Cumbria, Currais Novos mine, Czech Republic, Czochralski method, Dalarna, Diamond, Diamond simulant, Diopside, Dispersion (optics), Dopant, Dr. Stone, Dragoon Mountains, Druse (geology), Fluorescence, Fluorite, Fluoroscopy, Gemology, Gemstone, Giant Mountains, Glenorchy, New Zealand, Granite, Greisen, Grossular, Guttannen, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Hydrothermal circulation, King Island (Tasmania), Loket, ... Expand index (44 more) »
- Laser gain media
- Minerals in space group 88
- Phosphors and scintillators
- Tungstate minerals
- Tungsten minerals
Absorption spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy is spectroscopy that involves techniques that measure the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.
See Scheelite and Absorption spectroscopy
Active laser medium
The active laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser. Scheelite and active laser medium are laser gain media.
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Andradite
Andradite is a mineral species of the garnet group. Scheelite and Andradite are calcium minerals.
Apatite
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal. Scheelite and Apatite are calcium minerals and gemstones.
Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Barium
Barium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ba and atomic number 56.
Birefringence
Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.
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Bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
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Cassiterite
Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. Scheelite and Cassiterite are tetragonal minerals.
Cathode-ray tube
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.
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Central Otago
Central Otago is an area located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Chemical formula
A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.
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Chemical synthesis
Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products.
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Cleavage (crystal)
Cleavage, in mineralogy and materials science, is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes.
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Conchoidal fracture
A conchoidal fracture is a break or fracture of a brittle material that does not follow any natural planes of separation.
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Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
Crystal habit
In mineralogy, crystal habit is the characteristic external shape of an individual crystal or aggregate of crystals.
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Crystal system
In crystallography, a crystal system is a set of point groups (a group of geometric symmetries with at least one fixed point).
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Crystal twinning
Crystal twinning occurs when two or more adjacent crystals of the same mineral are oriented so that they share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner.
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Cubic zirconia
Cubic zirconia (abbreviated CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Scheelite and cubic zirconia are gemstones.
See Scheelite and Cubic zirconia
Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.
Currais Novos mine
The Currais Novos mine is a large open pit mine located in Rio Grande do Norte state of Brazil.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Czochralski method
The Czochralski method, also Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones.
See Scheelite and Czochralski method
Dalarna
Dalarna, also referred to by the English exonyms Dalecarlia and the Dales, is a landskap (historical province) in central Sweden.
Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Scheelite and diamond are gemstones and luminescent minerals.
Diamond simulant
A diamond simulant, diamond imitation or imitation diamond is an object or material with gemological characteristics similar to those of a diamond.
See Scheelite and Diamond simulant
Diopside
Diopside is a monoclinic pyroxene mineral with composition. Scheelite and Diopside are calcium minerals and luminescent minerals.
Dispersion (optics)
In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular.
See Scheelite and Dispersion (optics)
Dopant
A dopant (also called a doping agent) is a small amount of a substance added to a material to alter its physical properties, such as electrical or optical properties.
Dr. Stone
Dr.
Dragoon Mountains
The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.
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Druse (geology)
In geology and mineralogy, druse is a crystal habit represented by the coating of fine crystals on a rock fracture surface, or vein or within a vug or geode.
See Scheelite and Druse (geology)
Fluorescence
Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
See Scheelite and Fluorescence
Fluorite
Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. Scheelite and Fluorite are calcium minerals, gemstones and luminescent minerals.
Fluoroscopy
Fluoroscopy, informally referred to as "fluoro", is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object.
Gemology
Gemology or gemmology is the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstone materials. Scheelite and Gemology are gemstones.
Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. Scheelite and gemstone are gemstones.
Giant Mountains
The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech:,, Riesengebirge), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif).
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Glenorchy, New Zealand
Glenorchy is a small settlement at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu in the South Island region of Otago, New Zealand.
See Scheelite and Glenorchy, New Zealand
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
Greisen
Greisen is a highly altered granitic rock or pegmatite, usually composed predominantly of quartz and micas (mostly muscovite).
Grossular
Grossular is a calcium-aluminium species of the garnet group of minerals. Scheelite and Grossular are calcium minerals.
Guttannen
Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Hermann–Mauguin notation
In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.
See Scheelite and Hermann–Mauguin notation
Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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King Island (Tasmania)
King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.
See Scheelite and King Island (Tasmania)
Loket
Loket (Elbogen) is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.
Luoyang
Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.
Lustre (mineralogy)
Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.
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Macraes
Macraes, formerly known as Macraes Flat, and known in Māori as Oti, on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 2012-01-04 is a town in the Waitaki District in Otago, New Zealand.
Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
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Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
Mohs scale
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.
Moissanite
Moissanite is naturally occurring silicon carbide and its various crystalline polymorphs. Scheelite and Moissanite are gemstones.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element; it has symbol Mo (from Neo-Latin molybdaenum) and atomic number 42.
Mount Kinpu
, or is a mountain and the main peak in the Okuchichibu Range in Kantō Mountains.
Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.
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Neodymium
Neodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Nd and atomic number 60.
North Otago
North Otago is an area in New Zealand covers the area of the Otago region between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for gliding).
Optical spectrometer
An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials.
See Scheelite and Optical spectrometer
Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Pegmatite
A pegmatite is an igneous rock showing a very coarse texture, with large interlocking crystals usually greater in size than and sometimes greater than.
Platinocyanide
Platinocyanide, also known as tetracyanoplatinate (IUPAC), cyanoplatinate, or platinocyanate, is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula 2−. Scheelite and Platinocyanide are phosphors and scintillators.
See Scheelite and Platinocyanide
Praseodymium
Praseodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pr and the atomic number 59.
See Scheelite and Praseodymium
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). Scheelite and Quartz are luminescent minerals.
Rare-earth element
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths), are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.
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Refractive index
In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.
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Relative density
Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.
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Säter
Säter is a locality and the seat of Säter Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 11,161 inhabitants in 2020.
Scintillator
A scintillator is a material that exhibits scintillation, the property of luminescence, when excited by ionizing radiation. Scheelite and scintillator are phosphors and scintillators.
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Silesia
Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.
Skarn
Skarns or tactites are coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks during regional or contact metamorphism and metasomatism.
Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Tetragonal crystal system
In crystallography, the tetragonal crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.
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Topaz
Topaz is a silicate mineral made of aluminum and fluorine with the chemical formula AlSiO(F, OH). Scheelite and Topaz are gemstones and luminescent minerals.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a crystalline silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Scheelite and Tourmaline are gemstones.
Tremolite
Tremolite is a member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals with composition Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)2. Scheelite and Tremolite are calcium minerals and luminescent minerals.
Trumbull, Connecticut
Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Tungstate
In chemistry, a tungstate is a compound that contains an oxyanion of tungsten or is a mixed oxide containing tungsten.
Tungsten
Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. Scheelite and Tungsten are tungsten minerals.
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
Vein (geology)
In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
See Scheelite and Vein (geology)
Vesuvianite
Vesuvianite, also known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue silicate mineral. Scheelite and Vesuvianite are calcium minerals, gemstones and tetragonal minerals.
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 184510 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Wolframite
Wolframite is an iron, manganese, and tungstate mineral with a chemical formula of that is the intermediate mineral between ferberite (rich) and hübnerite (rich). Scheelite and Wolframite are tungstate minerals and tungsten minerals.
X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
Zinc sulfide
Zinc sulfide (or zinc sulphide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula of ZnS. Scheelite and zinc sulfide are phosphors and scintillators.
See Scheelite and Zinc sulfide
See also
Laser gain media
- (E)-Stilbene
- (Z)-Stilbene
- Active laser medium
- Caesium cadmium bromide
- Carbon dioxide
- Coumarin
- Fluorescein
- Gadolinium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet
- Laser dye
- Lutetium aluminium garnet
- Nd:YAB
- Nd:YCOB
- Neodymium-doped gadolinium orthovanadate
- Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride
- Neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate
- Neon
- Nitrogen
- Photodarkening
- Rhodamine
- Rhodamine 123
- Rhodamine 6G
- Rhodamine B
- Scheelite
- Tetracene
- Umbelliferone
- Ytterbium-doped lutetium orthovanadate
- Yttrium aluminium garnet
- Zinc selenide
Minerals in space group 88
Phosphors and scintillators
- (E)-Stilbene
- (Z)-Stilbene
- Activator (phosphor)
- Anthracene
- Barium fluoride
- Barium sulfide
- Bismuth germanate
- Cadmium sulfide
- Cadmium tungstate
- Calcium sulfide
- Daly detector
- Fluorescent dyes
- Gadolinium oxyorthosilicate
- Gadolinium oxysulfide
- Lanthanum hafnate
- Lanthanum(III) bromide
- Lead(II) fluoride
- Lithium molybdate
- Lutetium tantalate
- Lutetium–yttrium oxyorthosilicate
- POPOP
- Phosphor
- Phosphorescence
- Platinocyanide
- Polyvinyl toluene
- Potassium fluorosilicate
- Praseodymium(III) nitrate
- Scheelite
- Scintillator
- Sialon
- Sodium iodide
- Strontium aluminate
- Wavelength shifter
- Yttrium aluminium garnet
- Zinc selenide
- Zinc sulfide
Tungstate minerals
- Ferberite
- Hübnerite
- Hatches Creek wolfram field
- Ophirite
- Pinalite
- Raspite
- Russellite (mineral)
- Scheelite
- Stolzite
- Wolframite
Tungsten minerals
- Alcantarillaite
- Anthoinite
- Billwiseite
- Ferberite
- Hübnerite
- Hydrokenoelsmoreite
- Johnsenite-(Ce)
- Khomyakovite
- Manganokhomyakovite
- Qusongite
- Raspite
- Russellite (mineral)
- Scheelite
- Stolzite
- Tungsten
- Tungstite
- Wolframite
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheelite
Also known as Artificial scheelite, CaWO4, Calcium orthotungstate, Calcium tungstate, Calcium wolframate, Scheeiite.
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