rheniite
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Rheniite is a very rare rhenium sulfide mineral with the chemical formula (Rhenium disulfide|). It forms metallic, silver grey platey crystals in the triclinic - pinacoidal class. It has a specific gravity of 7.5.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Rheniite
- Mineral.image
- Rheniite-tr507c.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Rheniite on basalt from the Kudriavy Volcano, Kurile Islands
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- ReS2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Rhn
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.EB.35
- Mineral.system
- Triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Pinacoidal () (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 6.47 Å, b = 6.368 Å c = 6.401 Å; α = 105° β = 91.59°, γ = 118.9°; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Black, red translucent
- Mineral.habit
- Platey
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- Black
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque, translucent in thin fragments
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Has part
- sulfur
- Named after
- rhenium
- Image
- Rheniite-34295.jpg
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- streak color
- black
- type locality (geology)
- Kudriavy volcano
- chemical formula
- ReS₂
- Commons category
- Rheniite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.EB.35
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.EB.35
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Rhn
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Rheniite is a very rare rhenium sulfide mineral with the chemical formula (Rhenium disulfide|). It forms metallic, silver grey platey crystals in the triclinic - pinacoidal class. It has a specific gravity of 7.5.
It was discovered at the Kudriavy Volcano, Iturup Island in the Kurile Islands, Russia and approved in 2004. It is found in active hot fumaroles on the volcano.
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