البائیت
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Elbaite, a sodium, lithium, aluminium boro-silicate, with the chemical composition Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)4, is a mineral species belonging to the six-member ring cyclosilicate tourmaline group.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Elbaite
- Mineral.category
- Cyclosilicate
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 7aaa11
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- FFFFFF
- Mineral.image
- Elbaite with albite - São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 280px
- Mineral.formula
- Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Elb
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.CK.05
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Ditrigonal pyramidal (3m) H–M symbol: (3m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- R3m
- Mineral.color
- Green, red to pink, blue, orange, yellow, colorless, multicolored
- Mineral.habit
- Prismatic; striated
- Mineral.cleavage
- Poor/indistinct on {1120} and {1011}
- Mineral.fracture
- Sub-conchoidal
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous
- Mineral.refractive
- nω = 1.635–1.650, nε = 1.615–1.632
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- tourmalines
- Named after
- Elba
- Image
- Elbaite-121985.jpg
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- Commons category
- Elbaite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.CK.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.CK.05
- type locality (geology)
- San Piero in Campo
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- solid solution series with
- dravite
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Elb
- chemical formula
- Na(Li₁.₅Al₁.₅)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/C.08
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