Ulexite

created by Webster 1913
(thing) by Jembeth (11.6 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Jul 14 2001 at 21:55:39

Ulexite from Boron, California is also known as Television Stone, Television Rock or Television Ore. The crystals are arranged in long clear fibres resembing a bundle of fibre optics fused together. If you polish the stone so that there is a flat face on top and on bottom, you can see through the stone very clearly, and any images placed underneath the stone will seem to be projected on the top.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:01:23

U"lex*ite (?), n. [After a German chemist.] Min.

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

 

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