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Epsomite, Epsom salt, or magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula .
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Epsomite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfate mineral
- Mineral.image
- Epsomita 01.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Epsomite formation from a Calatayud, Spain cave
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Esm
- Mineral.strunz
- 7.CB.40
- Mineral.dana
- 29.6.11.1
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Disphenoidal (222) H-M symbol: (2 2 2)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P2₁2₁2₁
- Mineral.unit cell
- = 11.86, = 11.99 = 6.858 [Å];
- Mineral.color
- White, grey, colorless, or pink, greenish
- Mineral.habit
- Acicular to fibrous encrustations
- Mineral.twinning
- Rarely observed on {110}
- Mineral.cleavage
- {010} perfect {101} distinct
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal
- Mineral.mohs
- 2
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous, silky when fibrous
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- magnesium sulfate heptahydrate
- Named after
- Epsom
- Image
- Epsomita 01.jpg
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- refractive index
- 1.455
- density
- 1.67
- type locality (geology)
- Epsom
- streak color
- white
- mineral fracture
- conchoidal fracture
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Mohs' hardness
- 2
- color
- pink
- Commons category
- Epsomite
- chemical formula
- MgSO₄·7H₂O
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 7.CB.40
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 7.CB.40
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Esm
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VI/C.03d
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