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Feldspar
origin crushed piece of Feldspar rock from Finland
main constituent K-feldspar, plagioclase, quartz
practical significance interpretation of remote sensing data. Analogues of other planets' atmospheric dust, and dust in comets, asteroids, and circumstellar shells
particle size measured size distributions
Fraunhofer: reff=1.0 μm, veff=1.0
particle shape irregular
refractive index estimated to be in the range [1.5-1.6] + i[0.00001-0.001]
color light pink to white
scattering matrix 441.6 nm
632.8 nm
article Volten H, Muñoz O, Rol E, de Haan JF, Vassena W, Hovenier JW. Scattering matrices of mineral aerosol particles at 441.6 nm and 632.8 nm. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, no. D15, pp. 17,375-17,401, 2001