barstowite
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Barstowite, formula Pb4[Cl6|CO3]•H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3, a white streak and an adamantine lustre.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Barstowite
- Mineral.category
- Halide minerals
- Mineral.image
- Barstowite-90280.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Barstowite from Passa Limani area, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
- Mineral.formula
- Pb4[Cl6
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Bsw
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.DC.95
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/m
- Mineral.color
- White to transparent
- Mineral.mohs
- 3
- Mineral.luster
- Adamantine
- Mineral.streak
- White
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- halide class of minerals
- Image
- Barstowite-90280.jpg
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- Commons category
- Barstowite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.DC.95
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.DC.95
- streak color
- white
- Mohs' hardness
- 3
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Bsw
- chemical formula
- Pb₄Cl₆(CO₃)·H₂O
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Encyclopedic overview
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Barstowite, formula Pb4[Cl6|CO3]•H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3, a white streak and an adamantine lustre.
The type locality for Barstowite is Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It is named after Richard W. Barstow (1947–1982), a Cornish mineral collector.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “barstowite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.