Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate
This is a calcium sulfate percipitate formed by the
addition of dilute sulfuric acid to a
solution containing calcium or by the addition of dilute calcium acetate to a
solution containing sulfates. The "fishtail"
habit forms more slowl. In this case the test drop was very concentrated.
Transmitted Circular Polarized Light
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References:
Chamot, Emile Monnin and Clyde Walter Mason, HANDBOOK OF CHEMICAL MICROSCOPY, Volume II,
pp. 105-107 and 349-350, 1940.