| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | peridoto |
| esperanto | peridoto |
| italia | peridoto |
| japani | カンラン石 (kanranseki), 橄欖石 (kanranseki), かんらんせき (kanranseki) |
| kreikka | φορστερίτης (forsterítis) |
| latina | chrysolithos |
| portugali | peridoto, crisólito, crisólita |
| ranska | péridot |
| suomi | peridootti |
| venäjä | хризолит (hrizolit) |
| Monikko | peridots |
A transparent olive green form of olivine, used as a gem.
Yellow, to yellow-green, olive-green, to brownish, sometimes a lime green, to emerald hue – Uncommon, simple twinning can occur on {100}, {011},{012}, cyclic twinning on {031} – Poor on {010} and {110}, {010} cleavage improves with increasing iron content – Conchoidal – 6.5–7 – Vitreous to oily – Colorless – Translucent to transparent – 3.2–4.3 – 1.64–1.70 – +0.036 – Weak pale yellow-green to yellow, yellow to yellow orange – Between 1,200 and 1,900°C – Infusible avoid thermal shock – Slowly forms gelatinous silica in H Cl.
A transparent olive green form of olivine, used as a gem.
The atomic scale structure of olivine looking along the a axis. Oxygen is shown in red, silicon in pink, and magnesium/iron in blue. A projection of the unit cell is shown by the black rectangle.
A transparent olive green form of olivine, used as a gem.
Pallasite meteorite with olive-green peridot crystals, found in Fukang, China.