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yttrogarnet

See:yttrium garnet

yttromicrolite

A discredited mineral name for an amorphous mixture of calcium sulfate,
tantalite, and heterogeneous microlite.

yttro-orthite

See:allanite

yttrotantalite

An orthorhombic mineral, (Y,U,Fe) (Ta,Nb)O4 ; radioactive; black to
brown: in pegmatites.

yttrotungstite

A monoclinic mineral, YW2 O6 (OH)3 .
Syn:thorotungstite

yugawaralite

A monoclinic mineral, CaAl2 Si6 O16 .4H2 O ;
zeolite group; colorless to white; in low-grade metamorphosed tuffs near
the Yugawara hot spring, Kanagawa, Japan.

yukonite

a. A noncrystalline mineral: Ca2 Fe3 (AsO4 )4
OH.12H2 O. AGI
b. An obsolete term originally assigned to an igneous rock intermediate in
composition between a tonalite and an aplite. It is named after the Yukon
River, Alaska. AGI

zaffer

Mixed arsenates and oxides of cobalt produced by roasting sulfide ores.
Pryor, 3

zanthochroite

Amorphous cadmium sulfide; greenockite is the crystalline form.
Am. Mineral., 1

zaratite

An isometric mineral, Ni3 (CO3 )(OH)4 .4H2 O ;
emerald green; forms incrustations and compact masses in mafic and
ultramafic rocks.

zarnec

See:zarnich

zarnich

Native sulfide of arsenic, including sandarac and orpiment. Syn:zarnec
Webster 2nd

zavaritskite

A tetragonal mineral, BiOF ; at Sherlova Gory, East Transbaikal, Russia.

z-axis

a. One of the three optic axis (x, y, and z) in a biaxial crystal. The
z-axis is the axis of least ease of vibration. Light vibrating parallel to
the z-axis travels with minimum velocity and is called the slow ray, the
z-ray, and the gamma -ray. The highest index of refraction ngamma
, in biaxial minerals is the index of the slow ray vibrating parallel to
the z-axis.
b. One of three axes in a three-dimensional coordinate system.
Crystallographers customarily use a right-handed system with the z-axis
oriented positive upward, the y-axis positive to the right, and the x-axis
positive toward the viewer. For mineral parameters, the z-axis is labelled
c with periodic translations t3 . If one crystallographic axis is
symmetrically unique, it is labelled z, except in the monoclinic system,
where mineralogic convention uses the second setting labelling the unique
diad y.

z-coordinate

One of the three coordinates in a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate
system. Webster 3rd

z-direction

One of three orthogonal optic directions in biaxial crystals. Light with
its electric vector (vibration direction in early terminology) parallel to
the z-direction has the highest refractive index (ngamma ) for a
given crystal and is called the slow ray. In orthorhombic crystals, the
z-direction is constrained by symmetry to correspond to one of the
crystallographic directions, the correspondence determined empirically. In
monoclinic crystals, one optic direction, commonly the y-direction, is
constrained by symmetry to correspond to the unique diad. In triclinic
crystals, there is no symmetrical constraint relating optic directions to
crystallographic axes.

zeasite

Wood opal, formerly a name for fire opal.

zebra dolomite

A term used in the Leadville district of Colorado for an altered dolomite
rock that shows conspicuous banding (generally parallel to bedding)
consisting of light-gray coarsely textured layers alternating with darker
finely textured layers. See also:zebra rock

zebra rock

a. A term used in the Colville district of NE Washington State for a
dolomite that shows narrow banding consisting of black layers (indicative
of organic matter) alternating with white, slightly coarse-grained, and
somewhat vuggy layers. See also:zebra dolomite
b. A term used in Western Australia for a banded quartzose rock of
Cambrian age. AGI

Zeiss konimeter

A portable dust-sampling instrument. See also:konimeter

Zellweger furnace

A long-hearth reverberatory furnace used at Iola, KS. Fay