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Sensation of color in substances is one of nature’s best gifts to humans. Color in plants, their roots, trunks, leaves, or flowers are pleasure to look at, particularly during the spring. Colors in rocks, gems, or even soils are very delightful to viewers. Many poets and philosophers sought the solace when dawn and dusk mix colors in the sky. Minerals lose much of their colors when thin sections are made. However, using concepts put forward in this chapter we can add colors in such a way to various minerals that is aesthetically pleasing, but, also, allows us to identify minerals easily.
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Harthsorne N.H. and A. Stuart, 1969, Practical Optical Crystallography, American Elsevier Publ. Co. Inc.
Nesse, W.D., 1986, Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Whalstrom, E.E., 1964, Optical Crystallography, 5th ed., Wiley, New York.
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Verma, P.K. (2023). Optical Crystallography. In: Optical Mineralogy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40765-9_4
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