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Formula: Ca10Al24(SiO4)6(PO4)7O22F3.72H2O

Origin of name: after locality Vise, Belgium

 

Crystal system: cubic

Crystal class: unknown

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Colour: white, bluish white, yellowish white

Diaphaneity: translucent, transparent in thin fragments

Luster: vitreous

Habit: massive, minute nodes

Hardness: 3 to 4

Specific gravity: 2.2

Cleavage: none

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