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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A grain of blue quartz from the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA). The next two photos show the same grain at various angles relative to the light source and its characteristic chatoyancy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) showing its characteristic chatoyancy caused by submicron ilmenite inclusions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) showing its characteristic chatoyancy caused by submicron ilmenite inclusions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pietrosu Bistriței porhyroid (Romania).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A blue quartz grain from a Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil) polished sample.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue quartz from the Lainici-Păiuș quartzite (Romania) showing chatoyancy caused by rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios alkali rhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios alkali rhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished sample of a Småland (Sweden) type granite.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Microphotograph of a petrographic thin section showing exsolved rutile needles in the blue quart from the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil) showing a blue quartz grain with multiple color zones.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil) showing blue quartz with two types of color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Albești metagranite (Romania) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) showing a blue quartz grain with a color zoning shaped by the magmatic corrosion gulfs, and chatoyancy,</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) showing blue quartz with color zoning and chatoyancy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Llano rhyolite (Texas, USA) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Milbank granite (South Dakota, USA) showing blue qaurtz with characteristic chatoyancy caused by exolved rutile needles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Pietrosu Bistriței porhyroid (Romania) showing blue quartz with color zoning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The polished section of the Rio dos Remédios metarhyolite (Bahia, Brazil) from the previous image, showing the color change in transmitted light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Lalu granite (Romania).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polished section of the Lalu granite (Romania).</image:caption>
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