botryogen
Sign in to saveBotryogen is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula: MgFe3+(SO4)2(OH)·7H2O. It is also known as quetenite.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Botryogen
- Mineral.image
- Botryogen-Butlerite-Copiapite-d05-1a.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Specimen from Mina Santa Elena, Alcaparrosa, San Juan, Argentina with a red colored crystal of botryogen in a matrix of butlerite, copiapite and parabutlerite (size:5.7 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm)
- Mineral.category
- Sulfate minerals
- Mineral.formula
- MgFe3+(SO4)2(OH)·7H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Byg
- Mineral.strunz
- 7.DC.25
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/n
- Mineral.mohs
- 2 - 2.5
- Mineral.gravity
- 2.14
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfate mineral
- Named after
- botryoidal
- Image
- Botryogen mineralogisches museum bonn.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 7.DC.25
- Commons category
- Botryogen
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 7.DC.25
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Byg
- chemical formula
- MgFe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·7H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VI/D.04a
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Botryogen is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula: MgFe3+(SO4)2(OH)·7H2O. It is also known as quetenite.
It crystallizes in the monoclinic prismatic system and typically occurs as vitreous bright yellow to red botryoidal to reniform masses and radiating crystal prisms. It has a specific gravity in the range 2 to 2.1 and Mohs hardness in the range of 2 to 2.5.
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