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.
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- 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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- Image
- Rheniite-34295.jpg
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- 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
- 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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