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Reading direction
Thickness

0
10
20
30
40
50
d [m]
(n n)
Birefringence
Black 0
Iron gray
40 0.001 Pennine Analcite Cryolite
Leucite Melilite
Lavender gray 97 0.002 Ripidolite Apophyllite Saponite
Marialite Halloysite

Gray blue 0.003 Phillipsite Apatite -Cristobalite

158 Kmmererite Chabazite -Tricalciumphosphate

200 0.004 Riebeckite Eudialyte Vesuvianite

Clear gray 218 Chamosite Vanthoffite Tridymite
Greenish white 234
Nearly pure white 259 0.005 Clinozoisite Nepheline Serendibite
Yellowish white 267 Arfvedsonite Sanidine Coesite
Pale straw yellow 275
Straw yellow 281 Heulandite Beryl Orthoclase
Light yellow 306 0.006
Sapphirine Zoisite Microcline

First Order
Bright yellow 332 Glaserite Harmotome kermanite
0.007 Aenigmatite Antigorite Kaolinite

400 0.008 Chrysotile Corundum Silicocarnotite

Triphylite Plagioclase Anorthoclase
Brown-yellow 430 An 20-60
0.009 Topaz Albite Quartz
Enstatite Celestite Rankinite
Cordierite Struvite Tricalciumsilicate
Red-orange 0.010 Axinite Stilbite Gypsum
505 Epistilbite Bronzite Boracite
Red Mg-Riebeckite Chrysoberyl
536
Deep red 551 0.011 Clinochlore Andalusite Gehlenite
Purple 565 Chloritoid Bytownite Scolecite
Violet 575
Indigo 589 Laumontite Natrolite -Dicalciumsilicate
600 0.012
Hydronephelite Barite Brushite
Clintonite Kornerupine Petalite
0.013 Dipyre Hypersthene Anorthite
Sky blue 664 Staurolite Thenardite Rhodonite
Margarite Trona
0.014 Eckermannite Thuringite Wollastonite

Greenish blue 728

Green 747 0.015 Epidote Jadeite Bustamite
Picromerite Crossite Boehmite

800 0.016 Phenakite Monticellite -Dicalciumsilicate

Merwinite Richterite Mullite
Lighter green 826
Yellowish green 843 Syngenite Kyanite Gedrite
0.017
Greenish yellow 866 Na-Tremolite

Second Order
0.018 Hiortdahlite Thomsonite
Pure yellow 910

Orange 948 0.019 Lawsonite Pargasite Polyhalite

Pumpellyite Amesite

Bright orange-red 1000 998 0.020 Melinophan Alunite Spodumene

Actinolite Vermiculite Amblygonite
Katophorite
0.021 Barkevikite Comm. Hornbl. Brucite
Prehnite Glauberite Gibbsite

Dark violet-red 1101 0.022 Carpholite Tremolite Sillimanite

Triplite Hastingsite Orthoferrosilite
Light bluish violet 1128
Indigo 1151 0.023 Kainite Pigeonite Larnite
Omphacite Gadolinite

1200 0.024 Cookeite Augite Kaersutite

1258 0.025 Anthophyllite Tourmaline Borax

Greenish blue Glaucophane Wavellite Montmorillonite
Hydromagnesite
0.026 Rosenbuschite Whlerite Cancrinite
Mizzonite Fassaite
Sea green 1334
0.027 Carnallite Titanaugite Stishovite
Phlogopite
1376
Lustrous green
1400 0.028 Colemanite Epsomite Glauconite
Chloromelanite Paragonite Lepidolite
Third Order Greenish yellow 1426
0.029 Babingtonite Salite Calciumhydroxide
Hedenbergite
Johannsenite
1495 Hgbomite Cummingtonite Pseudowollastonite
Flesh color 0.030
1534
Carmine red Diopside Zinnwaldite Sucrose
0.031
Clinohumite Dumortierite

1600 0.032 Allanite Chondrodite Lamprophyllite

1621 Rhnite Humite Clinoferrosilite
Dull purple
1652 0.033 Prehnite Forsterite Stilpnomelane
Violet-gray Variscite
1682
Gray-blue Kernite Bischofite
1711
0.034
Dull sea green
1744 0.035 Lazulite Olivine Pectolite
Bluish green Fe-Epidote

0.036 Catapleiite Grandidierite Muscovite

-0.180
-0.120
-0.090
-0.080
-0.070
-0.065
-0.060
-0.055
-0.050
-0.045
-0.040

Talc

Rutile

Path difference [nm]

Zircon
augite

Calcite

Siderite
Sphene
Datolite

Anatase

Brookite
Aegirine
Meionite

Hematite
Dolomite
Tephroite

Geikielite
Ascharite
Monazite
Grunerite
Aegerine-

Aragonite

Magnesite
Columbite
Baddeleyite

Pyrophanite
Astrophyllite

(1000nm = 1m = 10-3mm)
Lepidocrocite
Siderophyllite
Oxyhornblende
Silk

Basaltic Hornblende
Nylon
Biotite
Tilleyite
Spurrite

Glucose
Maltose
Diaspore

Cellulose

Carbamide
Cholesterole
Carborundum

Brownmillerite
Bicalciumferrite

Monocalciumferrite
Ilvaite
Fayalite
Lvenite

Kieserite

Goethite
Phengite

Xenotime

Ludwigite
Anhydrite
Michel-Lvy

Cassiterite
Piemontite
Nontronite

Whewellite
Titanbiotite

Pyrophyllite
Color Chart

0,57
0,36
0,286
0,280
0,270
0,241
0,195
0,180
0,172
0,156
0,150
0,140
0,120
0,107
0,096
0,090
Stilpno melane 0,080
0,073
0,070
0,065
0,063
0,060
0,055
0,052
0,050
0,049
0,048
0,047
0,045
0,044
0,043
0,041
0,039
0,038