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Spectrolite Iridescent Polished Stone Slab Finland
This beautiful flashy tumbled polished (smooth edges) stone slab of Spectrolite is 4.38 inches by 3.33 inches and 8 mm or .33 inch thick.
Spectrolite is an uninteresting feldspar that, due to minute inclusions, shows an interesting display of beautiful iridescence or a flash of rainbow colors when light hits the stone in certain directions.
Spectrolite is a high grade variety of Labradorite. The difference between the two is Labradorite is usually a gray color, where Spectrolite is dark gray or black, giving a better background to make the colors pop more.
Also Spectrolite displays the whole spectrum of colors-hence the name.
Spectrolite comes from only one location, at Ylämaa in south-eastern Finland. It was discovered there while building in 1940 by the son of a Finnish Geologist, Aarne Laitakari.
This material was named "spectrolite" by the director of the Geological Survey of Finland.
The flash of rainbow colors occurs as you move the stone and when bright light hits it just right, making Spectrolite very difficult to photograph!
