Мелонит

Melonite is a telluride of nickel; it is a metallic mineral. Its chemical formula is NiTe2. It is opaque and white to reddish-white in color, oxidizing in air to a brown tarnish.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Мелонит is referenced by 15 other articles, and connects out to Mohs scale of mineral hardness, relative density and Moscow.

Vinony files it under Minerals described in 1866, Minerals in space group 164 and Nickel minerals.

Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Mineral.name: Melonite
Mineral.boxbgcolor: baa457
Mineral.image: Melonite-Calaverite-219105.jpg
Mineral.caption: Melonite after calaverite, on quartz. Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado. Size: 1.3 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm.
Mineral.category: Sulfide minerals
Mineral.formula: NiTe2
Mineral.IMAsymbol: Mlt
Mineral.molweight: 313.89 g/mol
Mineral.strunz: 2.EA.20
Mineral.dana: 02.12.14.01
Mineral.class: Hexagonal scalenohedral (m) H-M symbol: ( 2/m)
Mineral.symmetry: Pm1
Mineral.unit cell: a = 3.84 Å, c = 5.26 Å; Z = 1
Mineral.color: White, reddish white
Mineral.habit: Crystalline, foliated, granular
Mineral.system: Trigonal
Mineral.cleavage: {0001} Perfect
Mineral.fracture: Brittle