pyrofylliet
Sign in to savePyrophyllite is a phyllosilicate mineral composed of aluminium silicate hydroxide: Al2Si4O10(OH)2. It occurs in two forms (habits): crystalline folia and compact masses; distinct crystals are not known.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Pyrophyllite
- Mineral.category
- Phyllosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Pyrophyllite-Talc group
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- dfce9d
- Mineral.image
- Pyrophyllite-118706.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Pearly radial cluster of pyrophyllite from Hillsborough District, Orange County, North Carolina (Size: 11 × 7.3 × 6.6 cm)
- Mineral.formula
- Al2Si4O10(OH)2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Prl
- Mineral.molweight
- 360.31 g/mol
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic or triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) or pinacoidal ()
- Mineral.symmetry
- C2/c or C
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.16 Å, b = 8.966(3) Å, c = 9.347(6) Å; α = 91.18°, β = 100.46°, γ = 89.64°; Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Brown green, brownish yellow, greenish, gray green, gray white
- Mineral.habit
- Compact spherulitic aggregates of needlelike radiating crystals; as fine grained foliated laminae, granular, massive
- Mineral.cleavage
- [001] Perfect
- Mineral.tenacity
- Flexible inelastic
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phyllosilicates
- Named after
- leaf
- Image
- Pyrophyllite-386094.jpg
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- type locality (geology)
- Beryozovskoye deposit
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.EC.10
- Commons category
- Pyrophyllite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.EC.10
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Prl
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- chemical formula
- Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/E.04
Sources (2)
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Article · Nederlands
Het mineraal pyrofylliet is een aluminium-silicaat met de chemische formule Al2Si4O10(OH)2. Het fylosilicaat behoort binnen de kleimineralen tot de smectiet-groep.
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