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BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
THE ULTRAVIOLET GUIDE TO MINERALS, Sterling Gleason (1960)
3.5 stars
Nothing inspires the rockhound like an otherwise drab-looking stone awakened by ultraviolet light!
THE ULTRAVIOLET GUIDE TO MINERALS is a rockhound’s guide to ultraviolet prospecting. Basically a ninja manual for the amateur and advanced mineralogist; souls looking to identify mineral content in rocks via long and short-wave lamps.
And though we are neither amateur nor advanced in said hobby, that doesn’t scupper us from admiring the vaporous violet hues of margarosanite in calcite bespeckled by red axinite, or the spooky alien glow of radioactive-green uranium in silica.
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