پروستیت
Sign in to saveProustite is a sulfosalt mineral consisting of silver sulfarsenide, Ag3AsS3, known also as ruby blende, light red silver, arsenic-silver blende or ruby silver ore, and an important source of the metal. It is closely allied to the corresponding sulfantimonide, pyrargyrite, from which it was distinguished by the chemical analyses of Joseph L. Proust (1754–1826) in 1804, after whom the mineral received its name.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Proustite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfosalt minerals
- Mineral.image
- Proustite-209739.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- Ag3AsS3
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Prs
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.GA.05 Neso-sulfarsenites
- Mineral.dana
- 03.04.01.01 Proustite group
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Hexagonal scalenohedral (m) H-M Symbol: ( 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Rc
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 10.79 Å, c = 8.69 Å; Z = 6
- Mineral.color
- Scarlet-vermilion
- Mineral.habit
- Crystals prismatic and scalenohedral, massive, compact
- Mineral.twinning
- Common
- Mineral.cleavage
- Distinct on {101}
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal to uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Named after
- Joseph Proust
- Image
- Calcite-Proustite-mf16b.jpg
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- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- streak color
- vermilion
- Commons category
- Proustite
- chemical formula
- Ag₃AsS₃
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.GA.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.GA.05
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Prs
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/D.01a
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