Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline).
Hardness:
5.5-6 - Knife Blade-Orthoclase
Luster:
Vitreous - Greasy
Streak:
white
Optical Properties of Kaliophilite
Gladstone-Dale:
CI meas= -0.006 (Superior) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC) CI calc= 0.021 (Excellent) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.1998,KPDmeas= 0.2052,KC= 0.2041 Ncalc = 1.51 - 1.54
Optical Data:
Uniaxial (-), e=1.527, w=1.532, bire=0.0050.
Calculated Properties of Kaliophilite
Electron Density:
Bulk Density (Electron Density)=2.54 gm/cc note: Specific Gravity of Kaliophilite =2.58 gm/cc.
Fermion Index:
Fermion Index = 0.0085165557 Boson Index = 0.9914834443
Photoelectric:
PEKaliophilite = 3.65 barns/electron U=PEKaliophilite x relectron= 9.30 barns/cc.
Radioactivity:
GRapi = 351.79 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Concentration of Kaliophilite per GRapi unit = 0.28 (%)
Estimated Radioactivity from Kaliophilite - barely detectable