halite
Also known as rocksalt, rock salt
minerale del cloruro di sodio
AI overview
Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is the natural mineral form of sodium chloride (NaCl) that typically appears as colorless or white crystals, though it can also be various other colors depending on impurities. It matters because it's a naturally occurring salt mineral that commonly occurs alongside other evaporite minerals and has practical applications as a source of salt.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Halite
- Mineral.category
- Halide mineral
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- e8e8e8
- Mineral.image
- Halit (NaCl) - Kopalnia soli Wieliczka, Polska.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Halite from the Wieliczka salt mine, Małopolskie, Poland
- Mineral.formula
- NaCl
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Hl
- Mineral.molweight
- 58.433g/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.AA.20
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
Article · Italiano
La halite o alite (dal greco άλς = sale e λίθος = pietra), detto anche salgemma (nome composto da sale e gemma, per il suo aspetto cristallino) è un minerale formato da cloruro di sodio, che appartiene al gruppo omonimo. Fu descritta per la prima volta da Ernst Friedrich Glocker (1793 - 1858), mineralogista e geologo stratigrafico tedesco, nel 1847.
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