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The official state symbols represent the cultural heritage
and natural treasures of each state or the entire United States
California Symbols
California SymbolsAnimal, Bird, Colors, Dance, Fife and Drum Band, Fish, Flag, Flower, Folk Dance, Fossil, Gemstone, Gold Rush Ghost Town, Grass, Historical Society, Insect, Marine Fish, Marine Mammal, Military Museum, Mineral & Mineralogic Emblem, Motto, Nicknames, Poet Laureate, Prehistoric Artifact, Reptile, Rock & Lithologic Emblem, Seal, Soil, Song, Tall Ship, Tartan, Theatre, Tree |
California State Mineral & Mineralogic EmblemGold
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Characteristics |
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| Mineral class | Elements : Copper-silver-gold group |
| Chemical formula | Au |
| Crystal system | Cubic |
| Habitus | As grains, crack fillings and jugs. Rarely as octaedric crystals. |
| Cleavage | None, malleable. |
| Hardness | 2.5-3 |
| Density | 19.3 |
| Color | Yellow, without tarnish. |
| Streak | Yellow shiny. |
| Luster | Metallic |
| Description | |
| Occurance | Primarily in quartz veins of hydrothermal origin, but also as magmatic and metamorphic rock. Concentrated in alluvial deposits. |
| Associates | Quarts, sulfides. |
State Symbols
State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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