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Baryte is a mineral made of barium sulfate that is typically white or colorless and serves as the primary source for obtaining the element barium. It belongs to a group of similar minerals that include celestine, anglesite, and anhydrite, and can form solid solutions with celestine.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Barite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfate mineral, barite group
- Mineral.image
- Barite - Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalies, Huanuco, Peru.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Baryte crystals from Cerro Huarihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalíes, Huánuco, Peru
- Mineral.formula
- BaSO4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Brt
- Mineral.strunz
- 7.AD.35
- Mineral.dana
- 28.03.01.01
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm)H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pnma
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 8.884(2) Å,b = 5.457(3) Å,c = 7.157(2) Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, white, light shades of blue, yellow, grey, brown
- Mineral.habit
- Tabular parallel to base, fibrous, nodular to massive
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect cleavage parallel to base and prism faces: {001} Perfect, {210} Perfect, {010} Imperfect
- Mineral.fracture
- Irregular/uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- barium sulfate
- Image
- Barite - Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalies, Huanuco, Peru.jpg
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- chemical formula
- BaSO₄
- Commons category
- Baryte
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 7.AD.35
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 7.AD.37
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Brt
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VI/A.08
- production rate
- 220
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La barite (conosciuta anche come Baritina, nome in disuso) è un minerale di bario appartenente al gruppo della celestina; consiste di solfato di bario, ha densità relativa 4,5 e durezza 3 nella scala di Mohs. È un solido cristallizzante nel sistema ortorombico, si presenta generalmente incolore o bianco allo stato puro, può essere anche colorato in giallo o azzurro. Costituisce la ganga di vari metalli.
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