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Wikipedia says that these crystals occur as Octahedra. As you can see this sample does not conform. It comes to us from Myeba, Kenya, Africa.
Being smaller than I remembered it is about 1/8" across. I am still trying to wrap my mind around this being a crystal. I find myself thinking a crystal is at least opac to at most clear or prismatic.
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Wikipedia says that it has a "diverse technological applications like in luminescence, ionic conductivity, nuclear waste immobilization, high temperature thermal barrier coatings, automobile exhaust gas control, catalysts, solid oxide fuel cell, ionic/electric conductors...
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