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Blue Sodalite- Greenland
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The blue sodalite on this piece changes color when exposed to UV (SW), darkening to a light purple - a unique hue compared to other Greenland sodalites due to the natural blue coloring. Under SW it starts out orange but quickly shifts to a rusty color due to the tenebrescence (see animation below to view the tenebrescent change).
Bright green fluorescent areas are uranyl activated, unusual in that they occur mostly at the edges where the minerals intersect.
The natural color is a beautiful blue - one of the only blue sodalites which is strongly fluorescent, not to mention slightly tenebrescent.
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