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a dull gray rock that hides a galaxy of fire until light hits right
means A feldspar mineral, typically dull gray, famous for flashing iridescent blues and greens when light strikes it at the right angle.
from Named for Labrador, the region in eastern Canada where it was first noted in the late 18th century — picked up, by tradition, near the Inuit communities of the coast. The place itself owes its name to a Portuguese navigator, João Fernandes Lavrador, whose surname means 'farmer' or 'landholder.' So a stone full of buried fire ended up named, roundabout, after a man called 'the plowman.'
- flash effect
- its glow is called labradorescence, named just for it
- trick of light
- color comes from layers splitting light, not pigment
- discovery
- found in 1770 on Canada's Labrador coast
- folklore
- Inuit legend says aurora was trapped inside it
- angle matters
- turn it and the fire vanishes completely
labradorite from paul's island — feldspar discovered in labrador, canada in the 1770s, named after the region
labradorite from madagascar — spectrolite variety with exceptional labradorescence found in madagascar deposits