masuyite
Sign in to saveMasuyite is a uranium/lead oxide mineral with formula Pb[(UO2)3O3(OH)2]·3H2O.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Masuyite
- Mineral.image
- Masuyite-Uraninite-mun08rad-05b.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Orange Masuyite coating crystals of cubic uraninite (to about 1 cm). Shinkolobwe mine, the type locality, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Mineral.category
- Oxide minerals
- Mineral.formula
- Pb[(UO2)3O3(OH)2]·3H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Msy
- Mineral.strunz
- 4.GB.35
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Domatic (m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pn
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 13.98 Å, b = 12.11 Å, c = 14.2 Å; Z = 2
- Mineral.opticalprop
- Biaxial (-)
- Mineral.refractive
- nα = 1.785 nβ = 1.895 nγ = 1.915
- Mineral.birefringence
- δ = 0.130
- Mineral.2V
- Measured: 50°, calculated: 44°
- Mineral.dispersion
- extreme
- Mineral.other
- 25px Radioactive
- Mineral.references
- Masuyite on Mineralienatlas
via Wikipedia infobox
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Masuyite is a uranium/lead oxide mineral with formula Pb[(UO2)3O3(OH)2]·3H2O.
Masuyite was first described in 1947 for an occurrence in Katanga and named to honor Belgian geologist Gustave Masuy (1905–1945).