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17 view(s) Fluorescent Minerals and their Identification using UV Light
The first person to observe fluorescence in minerals was George Stokes in 1852. He noted the ability of fluorite to produce a blue glow when illuminated with ultraviolet light and called this phenomenon "fluorescence" after the mineral fluorite.
The name became synonymous with metallurgists, gemologists and biologists.
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