mordenite
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Mordenite is a zeolite mineral with the chemical formula . and it is one of the six most abundant zeolites and is used commercially.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Mordenite
- Mineral.image
- Mordenite-178958.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.category
- Tectosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Zeolite group
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Mor
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.GD.35
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Pyramidal (mm2) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Cmc21
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Mordenite-lw32b.jpg
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/F.11
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.GD.35
- Commons category
- Mordenite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.GD.35
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Mor
- chemical formula
- (Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O
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Mordenite is a zeolite mineral with the chemical formula . and it is one of the six most abundant zeolites and is used commercially.
It was first described in 1864 by Henry How. He named it after the small community of Morden, Nova Scotia, Canada, along the Bay of Fundy, where it was first found.
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