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
Sources (2)
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Article · Italiano
La carnallite è un minerale, un cloruro idrato di potassio e magnesio. Il nome deriva da (9 febbraio 1804 - 17 novembre 1874), un ingegnere minerario tedesco. Descritta per la prima volta da Heinrich Rose (1795-1864), un mineralogista tedesco.
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