ادینگتونیت
Sign in to saveEdingtonite is a white, gray, brown, colorless, pink or yellow zeolite mineral. Its chemical formula is BaAl2Si3O10·4H2O. It has varieties with tetragonal, orthorhombic or triclinic crystals.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Edingtonite
- Mineral.image
- Edingtonite-120476.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Edingtonite from Ice River Alkaline Complex, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
- Mineral.category
- Tectosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Zeolite group
- Mineral.formula
- BaAl2Si3O10·4H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Edi
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.GA.15
- Mineral.color
- White, gray, pink
- Mineral.habit
- Prismatic pseudotetragonal crystals; massive.
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.twinning
- On [110] and [001]
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on [110]
- Mineral.mohs
- 4 - 4.5
- Mineral.gravity
- 2.73 - 2.78
- Mineral.opticalprop
- Biaxial (-)
- Mineral.refractive
- nα = 1.538 nβ = 1.549 nγ = 1.554
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Edingtonite-120476.jpg
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- type locality (geology)
- Strathclyde
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.GA.15
- Commons category
- Edingtonite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.GA.15
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- named by
- Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Edi
- chemical formula
- Ba(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·4H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/F.10
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