phosphuranylite
Sign in to savePhosphuranylite is a uranyl phosphate mineral with formula KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O).
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Phosphuranylite
- Mineral.image
- Makro_Phosphuranylite.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Phosphuranylite from South Alligator River, Northern Territory, Australia (10 mm field of view)
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.formula
- KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Puy
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.EC.10
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Cmcm
- Mineral.other
- 25px Radioactive
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Makro Phosphuranylite 2.jpg
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VII/D.21
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.EC.10
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.EC.10
- Commons category
- Phosphuranylite
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Puy
- chemical formula
- KCa(H₃O)₃(UO₂)₇(PO₄)₄O₄·8H₂O
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Encyclopedic overview
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Phosphuranylite is a uranyl phosphate mineral with formula KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O).
It was first described in 1879 by Frederick Augustus Genth, from an occurrence in the Flat Rock pegmatite in Mitchell County, North Carolina, US.
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