Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Hessite
- Mineral.image
- Gold-Hessite-mf11b.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide minerals
- Mineral.formula
- Ag2Te
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Hes
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.30c
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/c
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 8.13, b = 4.48 c = 8.09 [Å]; β = 112.9°; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Lead-grey, steel-grey
- Mineral.cleavage
- Indistinct on {100}
- Mineral.tenacity
- Sectile
- Mineral.mohs
- 2–3
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- black
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- telluride mineral
- Has part
- disilver telluride
- Named after
- Germain Henri Hess
- Image
- Hessite-tmu68b.jpg
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.03
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.60
- Commons category
- Hessite
- chemical formula
- Ag₂Te
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.30c
- streak color
- black
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Hes
Sources (1)
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Article · Italiano
La hessite è un minerale, un tellururo di argento. Il suo nome deriva da quello del chimico svizzero Germain Henri Hess. Fu descritta per la prima volta nel 1843, dal mineralogista tedesco Friedrich Froebel.
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