Occurs as a fine coating over the minerals in druses or cavities in the granite.
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Druse
//dɹuːz//
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Bulgarian
1 entries- друза noun (a rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals)
Czech
1 entries- drúza noun (a rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals)
Portuguese
3 entries- drusa noun (a rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals)
- drusa noun (an aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants)
- drusa noun (a tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye)
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Nontronite, a variety of chloropal occurs as a light yellow powder in druses of the North Conway granite (99, p. 312).
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A lot of druses are found in the vein, and euhedral crystals of quartz, marcasite and sphalerite are observed as druse minerals.
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