Extinction (optical mineralogy)

Extinction - term used in optical mineralogy and petrology. Article “Extinction (optical mineralogy)” in English Wikipedia has 8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Extinction (optical mineralogy)”, its content was written by 14 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 33 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in English Wikipedia and cited 66 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #219342 in December 2015
• Global: #261884 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #493845 in November 2017
• Global: #804710 in November 2017

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		25.7782
2	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		7.9691
3	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		7.7319
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		7.3994
5	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		6.1982
6	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		3.3464

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Extinction (optical mineralogy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		155 849
2	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		9 994
3	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		1 676
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		468
5	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		251
6	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		208

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Extinction (optical mineralogy)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		383
2	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		38
3	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		28
4	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		20
5	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		8
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Extinction (optical mineralogy)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		14
2	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		12
3	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		3
4	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		2
5	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		1
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Extinction (optical mineralogy)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		0
2	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		0
3	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		0
4	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		0
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		0
6	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Extinction (optical mineralogy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Extinction (minéralogie)		37
2	English (en) Extinction (optical mineralogy)		16
3	Catalan (ca) Extinció (mineralogia)		5
4	Spanish (es) Extinción (óptica mineralógica)		5
5	Chinese (zh) 消光 (光學礦物)		3
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utslokning i mineralogi		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Extinció (mineralogia)
en	English Extinction (optical mineralogy)
es	Spanish Extinción (óptica mineralógica)
fr	French Extinction (minéralogie)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Utslokning i mineralogi
zh	Chinese 消光 (光學礦物)

Best Rank

English: #493845 11.2017

Global: #804710 11.2017

Best Rank

English: #219342 12.2015

Global: #261884 11.2021

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