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Family's Fluorescent Rocks Page 18:
Triboluminescence
Some minerals glow when you scratch them :
(Best viewed in True Color or High Color)
This sphalerite was scratched with a nail
in front of a Sony DSC-S50 camera.
QuickTime movie of triboluminescent sphalerite

Triboluminescent sphalerite from Colorado
under longwave UV.
See more sphalerite on Page 3 Stereo
Another
triboluminescence site
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James E. Tozour, jtozour@comcast.net
Last Updated 6/30/2008
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