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لاریمار
Sign in to saveLarimar is the tradename for a rare blue variety of the silicate mineral pectolite found only in Dominican Republic, around the city of Barahona. Its coloration varies from bluish white, light-blue, light-green, green-blue, turquoise blue, turquoise green, turquoise blue-green, deep green, dark green, to deep blue, dark blue and purple, violet and indigo and the larimar can come in many varieties and color mixes.
Key facts
- Mineral.color
- Shades of blue, blue-green
- Mineral.habit
- Tabular to acicular, radiating fibrous, spheroidal, or columnar; massive
- Mineral.name
- Larimar (Blue Pectolite)
- Mineral.category
- Inosilicate mineral
- Mineral.image
- Larimar.jpg
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 71b5bd
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- FFFFFF
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Larimar specimen from Dominican Republic
- Mineral.formula
- NaCa2Si3O8(OH)
- Mineral.system
- Triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Pinacoidal () (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 7.99 Å, b = 7.03 Å, c = 7.03 Å; α = 90.51°, β = 95.21°, γ = 102.53°; Z = 2
- Mineral.twinning
- Twin axis [010] with composition plane [100], common
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {100} and {001}
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle; tough when compact
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mineral variety
- Subclass of
- pectolite
- Image
- Larimar.jpg
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- Commons category
- Larimar
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