The colour plates in this book illustrate more than 1500 individual stones, and more than 100 line drawings show their crystal forms. Optical properties, specific gravities, refractive indices and absorption spectra of all the species are examined and listed.
Walter Schumann
198 X 129mm 272 pages
158 colour and 22 b/w & line, tables and 1 map
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