gismondine-Ca
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Gismondine is a mineral with the chemical formula CaAl2Si2O8·4H2O. It is a zeolite or hydrated aluminosilicate. It forms colorless, bipyramidal crystals of orthorhombic symmetry.
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It sits within the topics Minerals in space group 14, Monoclinic minerals and Zeolite group.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Gismondine
- Mineral.image
- Gismondina Calatrava.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Gismondine, Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Mineral.category
- Tectosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Zeolite group
- Mineral.formula
- CaAl2Si2O8·4H2O
- Mineral.dana
- 77.1.3.1
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/n
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- calcium
- Image
- Gismondina Calatrava.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.GC.05
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.GC.05
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- Commons category
- Gismondine
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Gis-Ca
- chemical formula
- Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/F.13
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Gismondine is a mineral with the chemical formula CaAl2Si2O8·4H2O. It is a zeolite or hydrated aluminosilicate. It forms colorless, bipyramidal crystals of orthorhombic symmetry.
Gismondine was named for Italian mineralogist Carlo Giuseppe Gismondi (1762–1824). It has been found in Iceland, Ireland, and Italy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gismondine-Ca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.