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The mineral '''Halite''' is common rock salt.

The mineral '''Halite''' is common rock salt.

{{Mineral | name=Halite | Image= | cdesc=Sodium Chloride | formula=NaCl | birefringence= | colors=Colorless, or tints of gray, yellow, red, blue | chabit=Usually the simple [[cube]], rarely [[octahedral]]; faces are commonly cavernous and develop into "[[hopper]]" crystals,  | csystem=[[Isometric]] | cleavage= Perfect, three directions at 90° | dispersion= | fracture=[[Conchoidal]], [[Brittle]] | hardness=2-2 1/2 | luminescence= | luster=[[Vitreous]] || nameorigin=From the [[Greek]] ''hals'', meaning ''salt'' | optics= | pleochroism= | sgravity=2.16 |spectral= | streak=White }}

{{Mineral | name=Halite | Image= | cdesc=Sodium Chloride | formula=NaCl | birefringence= | colors=Colorless, or tints of gray, yellow, red, blue | chabit=Usually the simple [[cube]], rarely [[octahedral]]; faces are commonly cavernous and develop into "[[hopper]]" crystals,  | csystem=[[Isometric]] | cleavage= Perfect, three directions at 90° | dispersion= | fracture=[[Conchoidal]], [[Brittle]] | hardness=2-2 1/2 | luminescence= | luster=[[Vitreous]] || nameorigin=From the [[Greek]] ''hals'', meaning ''salt'' | optics= | pleochroism= | sgravity=2.16 |spectral= | streak=White }}

=Sources=

==Sources==

*Chesterman, Charles W. ''The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf: New York (1987)

*Chesterman, Charles W. ''The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf: New York (1987)

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