magnesium cordierite
synthetic mineral compound
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Synthetic magnesium cordierite is a mineral compound valued for its low thermal expansion and resistance to thermal shock. While natural cordierite, a blue silicate mineral found in igneous rocks, has limited commercial use, its synthetic magnesium variant is employed as a semirefractory material. Cordierite is also known as dichroite due to its pleochroism, meaning it displays different colors when light passes through it in different directions.1
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