مزولیت
Sign in to saveMesolite is a tectosilicate mineral with formula . It is a member of the zeolite group and the natrolite subgroup, also resembling natrolite in appearance.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Mesolite
- Mineral.category
- Tectosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Zeolite group, natrolite subgroup
- Mineral.image
- Mesolite from Bombay, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Mesolite from Bombay collected in the 18th century by Dr John Hunter
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Mes
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.GA.05
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Pyramidal (mm2) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fdd2
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 18.4049(8) Å, b = 56.655(6) Å, c = 6.5443(4) Å; Z = 8
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, white, gray, yellowish brown
- Mineral.habit
- As elongated prismatic crystals, commonly in hairlike tufts and aggregates of fibers; radiating compact masses; stalactitic; porcelaneous
- Mineral.twinning
- Characteristically twinned on {010} or {100}
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {110} and {10}
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle, masses tough
- Mineral.mohs
- 5
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- stone
- Image
- Mesolite.jpg
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/F.10
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Mes
- chemical formula
- Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.GA.05
- Commons category
- Mesolite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.GA.05
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- streak color
- white
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