Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Datolite
- Mineral.category
- Nesosilicate
- Mineral.image
- Datolite-rom25c.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Datolite on sphalerite from San Luis Potosí, Mexico (size: 6.2 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm)
- Mineral.formula
- CaBSiO4(OH)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Dat
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.AJ.20
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/c
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 9.62, b = 7.6 c = 4.84 [Å]; β = 90.15°; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Colorless or white; may be grayish, yellow, green, pale green, red, pink, etc.
- Mineral.habit
- Crystal prismatic, short to tabular; Botryoidal or globular with columnar structure; granular to compact; cryptocrystalline
- Mineral.cleavage
- None
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal to uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 5 to 5.5
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cyclosilicates
- Named after
- separation
- Image
- Datolite-1116-02f.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.AJ.20
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.AJ.20
- Commons category
- Datolite
- type locality (geology)
- Arendal
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- described by source
- Mala hirnycha encyclopædia
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Dat
- chemical formula
- CaB(SiO₄)(OH)
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/A’.12
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