
فناسیت
Sign in to savePhenakite or phenacite is a fairly rare nesosilicate mineral consisting of beryllium orthosilicate, Be2SiO4. Occasionally used as a gemstone, phenakite occurs as isolated crystals, which are rhombohedral with parallel-faced hemihedrism, and are either lenticular or prismatic in habit: the lenticular habit is determined by the development of faces of several obtuse rhombohedra and the absence of prism faces. There is no cleavage, and the fracture is conchoidal. The Mohs hardness is high, being 7.5–8; the specific gravity is 2.96. The crystals are sometimes perfectly colorless and transparent, b
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Phenakite
- Mineral.image
- Fenacitas.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Phenakite crystals
- Mineral.category
- Nesosilicate
- Mineral.formula
- Be2SiO4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Phk
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.AA.05
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Rhombohedral () H-M symbol: ()
- Mineral.symmetry
- R
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 12.438 Å, c = 8.231 Å; Z = 18
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, yellow, pink, brown
- Mineral.habit
- Tabular, prismatic to acicular crystals often as columnar aggregates, as spherulites and granular
- Mineral.twinning
- Penetration twins around {0001}
- Mineral.cleavage
- Distinct on {110}, imperfect on {101}
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
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- Named after
- fraud
- Image
- Fenacitas.jpg
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- chemical formula
- Be₂SiO₄
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.AA.05
- Commons category
- Phenakite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.AA.05
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/A.01
- type locality (geology)
- Malysheva
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Phk
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