Biaxial +; 2V 23-50 degrees; colorless to very pale yellow to brown or green pleochroism; extreme birefringence; very high relief.
The photos above, both in plane polarized light, show the very high relief of nearly colorless sphene in a feldspar-rich rock. The pleochroic mineral in the picture on the right is acmite.
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