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Qing Yan (Green Salt)

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Qing Yan (Green Salt) (Isometric cubic crystals, light yellow, luster) 【Naming】 Qing Yan (Green Salt)...

Huaruishi (Ophicalcite)

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Huaruishi (Granular dense aggregate, grayish-white, with an uneven surface and angular edges) 【Naming】 Huaruishi  【Source】...

Alum

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Alum (Colorless and transparent, crystalline lumps, lustrous, smooth longitudinal ridges on the surface, attached with...

White Halloysite

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White Halloysite (Extremely hygroscopic and easily disintegrates when immersed in water) 【Naming】 White Halloysite 【Source】...

Melanterite

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Zaofan (Melanterite) (Columnar crystals, massive, translucent, greenish-white, hard and brittle)【Name】n Zaofan (Melanterite) n 【Source】n Rihuazi Materia...

Xuan Ming Fen (Mirabilitum Praeparatum)

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Xuan Ming Fen (Mirabilitum Praeparatum) (Radish boiled with Gypsum Fibrosum, prismatic granular crystalline form) 【Name】...

Mirabilitum and Glauber’s Salt

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Mirabilitum (Prismatic rectangular, translucent luster, brittle and easily broken) 【Naming】 Mirabilitum and Glauber’s Salt  【Source】...

Fu Long Gan (Zao Xin Tu)

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Fu Long Gan (Zao Xin Tu) 【Naming】 Fu Long Gan (Zao Xin Tu)  【Source】 Ming...

Stone Crab

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Stone Crab (Resembles a crab, often incomplete, with a brownish-earth colored back) 【Name】 Stone Crab...

Shi Yan (Fossil Spirifer)

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Shi Yan (Fossil Spirifer) (Flattened, bat-shaped, corrugated, bluish-grayish-brown, with a raised center, Ginkgo leaf-like texture,...

Qiu Shi (Autumn Stone)

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Qiu Shi (Autumn Stone) (Dan Qiu Shi: small cubes; Xian Qiu Shi; Pen Qiu Shi:...

White Wax

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White Wax 【Naming】 White Wax  【Frequency of Use】 F  【Origin】 Product refined from the petrochemical...

Fluorite

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Fluorite (angular, purple-green, vitreous luster, cracks, translucent, hard, heavy and easily broken) [Naming] Fluorite  [Source]...

White Quartz

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Bai Shi Ying (White Quartz) (Entirely white or milky white with a vitreous luster) 【Naming】n...

Xuan Jing Shi (玄精石)

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Xuan Jing Shi (玄精石) (Flaky, thin edges with a thick center, translucent) 【Name】 Xuan Jing...