Diaphaniety of Minerals

Dakota Matrix was founded in 1996 and has offered systematic and rare mineral specimens online since 1998.

Weinrich Minerals, A Dealer in Fine Mineral Specimens - Since 1989. We buy collections and single high quality specimens.

McDougall Minerals sells high-quality mineral specimens from all over the world to collectors of all levels, from beginners to connoisseurs

John Betts - Fine Minerals, New York. Dealers of Fine Minerals and Natural Crystal Clusters since 1989. We buy rock collections, we buy gem collections, we buy mineral collections.

Diaphaniety of Minerals

Definition

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

Diaphaniety of Minerals

Diaphaniety of Minerals

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