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KUNZITE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUNZITE  , a transparent

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lilac-coloured variety of
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spodumene, used as a gem-stone . It was discovered in 1902 near Pala, in
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San Diego county, California, not far from the locality which yields the
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fine specimens of
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rubellite and
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lepidolite, well known to mineralogists . The
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mineral was named by Dr C . Baskerville after Dr George F . Kunz, the gem expert of New York, who first described it . Analysis by R . O . E . Davis showed it to be a spodumene . Kunzite occurs in large crystals, some weighing as much as l000 grams each, and presents delicate hues from rosy lilac to deep
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pink . It is strongly dichroic . Near the
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surface it may lose colour by exposure .

Kunzite becomes strongly phosphorescent under the

Rontgen rays, or by the
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action of radium or on exposure to ultra-
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violet rays .

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