Light-colored zircon variety.
A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon.
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1 One is the variety of red garnet known as almandine, and the other is the jargoon .
2 The almandine produces characteristic bands in the green and the jargoon in the red, green and blue portion of the spectrum.
3 In the case of jargoon , they are supposed to be caused by the presence of some uranium compound in the mineral.
4 Opal, which is a comparatively light mineral, has a low refractive power; zircon or jargoon is a heavy mineral, and has a high refractive power.
5 All the almandine garnets which I have examined, and nearly all the jargoons , show these characteristic absorption spectra.
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