Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Enstatite
- Mineral.category
- Inosilicate minerals (single chain)
- Mineral.group
- Pyroxene group, orthopyroxene subgroup
- Mineral.image
- Enstatite-202036.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- MgSiO3
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- En
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.DA.05
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pbca
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 18.23, b = 8.84 c = 5.19 [Å]; Z = 8
- Mineral.color
- White, grey, green, yellow or brown - colorless in thin section.
- Mineral.habit
- Prismatic crystals, commonly lamellar, fibrous, or massive
- Mineral.twinning
- Simple and lamellar on [100]
- Mineral.cleavage
- Good/distinct on [210]
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- mineralogy
- Named after
- adversary
- Image
- Enstatite-USGS-BYU492.jpg
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- chemical formula
- Mg₂Si₂O₆
- Commons category
- Enstatite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.DA.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.DA.05
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- solid solution series with
- ferrosilite
- streak color
- grey
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- En
- Mohs' hardness
- 5.5
- density
- 3.20
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/D.02
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L'enstatite, Mg2Si2O6 (formula ufficiale riportata dall'IMA) è un ortopirosseno ricco in Mg, comune in peridotiti e gabbri; associato comunemente anche in molte rocce metamorfiche di alto grado.In natura si trova in miscele isomorfe con la ferrosilite.
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