Florescent minerals                     page             
Welcome to my page , which is devoted to florescent minerals.

If you do not already know what a florescent mineral is, hear it is. Luminescence is light that is emitted from a material when a electron is excited by some outside scorce. It also produces no heat from this process which the term "cold light" is dirived. Floresence is when the ouutside force is ultraviolet light. So a florescent mineral is a mineral ( not the kind that you eat) that "glows" under a ultraviolet lingt or otherwise known as "tube black lights".
Images of these wonderful minerals really doesn't do them justice, you must see them first hand.I am just facinated with these minerals..I had never previosly known that they did this , but when I first saw some of them them at a rock and Gem show, I thought they were soooo cool I bought all three of the specimens.

            here are some flourescent minerals
Argonite





florite






Smithsonite






Hydrozincite
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