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Moonstone

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  1. A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as tabular crystals embedded in volcanic rocks. It sometimes reflects a blue sheen along crystal planes. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and sanidine with this property is called moonstone. *Chemical composition: Potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi_3O_8 *Physical properties: **Moh's Hardness: 6.0 **Specific gravity: 2.6 **Color: white, flesh, yellow, pink **Luster: glassy **Fracture: conchoidal **Habit: tabular. Well developed crystal faces are often highly reflective.


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Moonstone may refer to:

* Moonstone, a type of gemstone (see orthoclase)
* The Moonstone, a novel by Wilkie Collins
* Moonstone Books, a publisher of graphic novels and comic books.
* Moonstone (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillainess, also known as Meteorite
* Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, a 1992 computer game
* Moonstone (Lone Wolf), the most powerful magical artifact in the Lone Wolf gamebook series
* Moonstone, Ontario, a small hamlet near Coldwater, north of Barrie, in Ontario, Canada
* Moonstone, the name of the machine used to select numbers in the Lotto draw in the UK's National Lottery.
* Moonstone, one of the three keys to Atlantis in the computer game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
* Moon Stone, an item in the Pokémon video games and anime; with it the pokémon Clefairy can evolve to Clefable
* Moonstone, an episode in The Outer Limits
* Moonstone - a novel from Sri Lankan writer daya dissanayake, published by Sarasavi Publishers, Colombo 2006

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