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Excerpt from Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology, Vol. 1
The retention of the crystalline form implies that the subsequent heating of a mineral, formed at a high temperature, did not rise to the point of fusion. But how is it possible to imagine, that a mineral in a state of faint ignition could lose constituents and take others? How could isolated crystals in drusy cavities undergo changes by best?
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