hoelite
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Hoelite is a mineral, discovered in 1922 at Mt. Pyramide, Spitsbergen, Norway and named after Norwegian geologist Adolf Hoel (1879–1964). Its chemical formula is C14H8O2 (9,10-anthraquinone).
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Within Vinony's link graph, hoelite is referenced by 8 other articles, and connects out to sulfur, mineral and digital object identifier.
It is catalogued under topics including Minerals described in 1922, Minerals in space group 14 and Monoclinic minerals.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Hoelite
- Mineral.image
- Hoelite, sulfur - Carolaschacht Mine, Freital, Saxony, Germany.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Yellow acicular crystals of hoelite (picture size: 10 mm)
- Mineral.category
- Organic mineral
- Mineral.formula
- C14H8O2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Hoe
- Mineral.strunz
- 10.CA.15
- Mineral.dana
- 50.4.2.1
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/a
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 15.81 Å, b = 3.967 Å c = 7.876 Å; β = 102.67°; Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Yellow, yellowish green
- Mineral.habit
- Acicular clusters; pseudo-orthorhombic
- Mineral.cleavage
- Good
- Mineral.streak
- Light yellow
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Semitransparent
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- organic class of minerals
- Named after
- Adolf Hoel
- Image
- Hoelite, sulfur - Carolaschacht Mine, Freital, Saxony, Germany.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 10.CA.15
- Commons category
- Hoelite
- chemical formula
- C₁₄H₈O₂
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 10.CA.15
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Hoe
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Hoelite is a mineral, discovered in 1922 at Mt. Pyramide, Spitsbergen, Norway and named after Norwegian geologist Adolf Hoel (1879–1964). Its chemical formula is C14H8O2 (9,10-anthraquinone).
It is a very rare organic mineral which occurs in coal fire environments in association with sal ammoniac and native sulfur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hoelite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.