Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline).
Habit:
Radial - Crystals radiate from a center without producing stellar forms (e.g. stibnite)
Hardness:
4-5 - Fluorite-Apatite
Luster:
Vitreous (Glassy)
Streak:
white
Optical Properties of Mazzite-Mg
Gladstone-Dale:
CI meas= -0.04 (Good) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC) CI calc= -0.054 (Good) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2416,KPDmeas= 0.2384,KC= 0.2293 Ncalc = 1.48
Optical Data:
Uniaxial (-), e=1.499, w=1.5062, bire=0.0072.
Calculated Properties of Mazzite-Mg
Electron Density:
Bulk Density (Electron Density)=2.14 gm/cc note: Specific Gravity of Mazzite-Mg =2.11 gm/cc.
Fermion Index:
Fermion Index = 0.01 Boson Index = 0.99
Photoelectric:
PEMazzite-Mg = 1.87 barns/electron U=PEMazzite-Mg x relectron= 4.00 barns/cc.
Radioactivity:
GRapi = 38.69 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Concentration of Mazzite-Mg per GRapi unit = 2.58 (%)
Estimated Radioactivity from Mazzite-Mg - barely detectable