کارنالیت
Sign in to saveCarnallite (also carnalite) is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KCl.MgCl2·6(H2O). It is variably colored yellow to white, reddish, and sometimes colorless or blue. It is usually massive to fibrous with rare pseudohexagonal orthorhombic crystals. The mineral is deliquescent (absorbs moisture from the surrounding air to the point of forming an aqueous solution) and specimens must be stored in an airtight container.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Carnallite
- Mineral.category
- Halide mineral
- Mineral.image
- Carnallit cristalls.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 256px
- Mineral.caption
- Carnallite crystals
- Mineral.formula
- KCl.MgCl2·6(H2O)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Cna
- Mineral.molweight
- 277.85 g/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.BA.10
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pnna
- Mineral.color
- Blue, colorless, yellow, white, red
- Mineral.habit
- Fibrous
- Mineral.twinning
- By pressure, polysynthetic twin lamellae can be developed
- Mineral.cleavage
- None
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal
- Mineral.mohs
- 2.5
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- halide class of minerals
- Named after
- Rudolf von Carnall
- Image
- Carnalita.jpg
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- Commons category
- Carnallite
- chemical formula
- KMgCl₃·6H₂O
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.BA.10
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.BA.10
- type locality (geology)
- Staßfurt
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Mohs' hardness
- 2.5
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Cna
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- III/B.08
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