moschellandsbergite
Sign in to saveMoschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Moschellandsbergite
- Mineral.category
- Metals and intermetallic alloys
- Mineral.image
- Moschellandsbergite-21591.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- silver amalgam, Ag2Hg3
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Mlb
- Mineral.strunz
- 1.AD.15d
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Tetartoidal (23) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- I23
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 10.04 Å, Z = 10
- Mineral.color
- white, tarnishes grey
- Mineral.cleavage
- brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5
- Mineral.luster
- metallic
- Mineral.gravity
- 13.48
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Moschellandsbergite-21591.jpg
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- Commons category
- Moschellandsbergite
- chemical formula
- Ag₂Hg₃
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 1.AD.15d
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 1.AD.15d
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- I/A.02
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Mlb
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Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.
It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
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