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antozonite

A dark-violet to black semiopaque variety of fluorite that emits a strong odor when crushed; commonly causing nausea among miners, perhaps owing to free fluorine; produced by alpha bombardment, as in the inner bands of halos surrounding uraninite and thorite inclusions.

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