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Diaphaniety of Minerals

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From Webster’s Second Edition:

dī"·åphä·nė´i·ty, n. [Greek diapheia, transparency, from diaphanes, transparent; dia-, through, and phainein, to show.] the quality of being transparent.

Diaphaniety	MINERAL COUNT
Nearly opaque	4
Opaque	897
Opaque to subtranslucent	6
Opaque to translucent	12
Semitranslucent	1
Subopaque	15
Subopaque to Opaque	2
Subtranslucent	17
Subtranslucent to Opaque	65
Subtranslucent to translucent to opaque	1
Subtransparent	4
Subtransparent to Opaque	8
Subtransparent to subtranslucent	7
Subtransparent to translucent	14
Subtransparent to translucent to opaque	2
Translucent	362
Translucent to Opaque	144
Translucent to Subopaque	23
Translucent to Subtranslucent	1
Translucent to subtranslucent	33
Translucent to subtranslucent to opaque	6
Translucent to transparent	29
Transparent	923
Transparent to Dull	1
Transparent to Opaque	28
Transparent to Semiopaque	1
Transparent to Subopaque	21
Transparent to Subtranslucent	36
Transparent to Subtransparent to translucent	13
Transparent to Translucent	801
Transparent to translucent to opaque	29
Transparent to translucent to subtranslucent	1

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Diaphaniety of Minerals

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