Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Amesite
- Mineral.category
- Phyllosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Kaolinite-Serpentine group, serpentine subgroup
- Mineral.image
- Amesite-190280.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- Mg2Al2SiO5(OH)4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ame
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.ED.15
- Mineral.system
- Triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Pedial (1) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- C1
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.307(1), b = 9.195(2) c = 14.068(3) [Å] α = 90.09(2)° β = 90.25(2)°, γ = 89.96(2)°; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- White, colorless, pink to lilac, pale green
- Mineral.habit
- Crystals form as platy to tapering elongated pseudohexagonal prisms
- Mineral.twinning
- Common as six-fold sector twins on {001} and polysynthetic twins parallel to {010}
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {001}
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 2.5–3
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- serpentine mineral subgroup
- Image
- Amesite-190279.jpg
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- Commons category
- Amesite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.ED.15
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.ED.15
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ame
- chemical formula
- Mg₂Al(AlSiO₅)(OH)₄
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/E.10b
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
L'amesite è un minerale.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA