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Rock collecting is a pretty easy hobby to get into - buy a hammer, find a pile of rocks, and you're rock collecting.
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Sodalite (Hackmanite) - Greenland
$250.00 USD
SKU: MSG1451
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A great piece of sodalite (hackmanite) with bright red-orange fluorescence under shortwave.
The material from this locality is probably the winner in the color-change department. We don't have much of this deeply tenebrescent material left.
Upon exposure to SW UV the sodalite on this piece changes color to a deep purple - in seconds! Expose it to a bright white light (UV free halogen or LED spotlight held directly on the rock) and it reverts back to its natural color almost immediately. The LW fluorescence is knock-your-socks-off bright.
The animation shows the color change (tenebrescence) after exposure to longwave and shortwave UV.
What is Tenebrescence? (All about Hackmanite - Hint: it's not fluorescence)
Minerals which are capable of this reversible color change by exposure to UV (or other energy sources), without any change in their essential composition, are said to be tenebrescent
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Tugtupite is the most widely known fluorescent mineral from Greeenland. It is used in making beautiful tugtupite cabochons.
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