schröckingerite
Sign in to saveSchröckingerite is a radioactive yellow uranium-containing carbonate mineral, hydrated sodium calcium uranyl sulfate carbonate fluoride. Schröckingerite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, occurring as globular clusters, and fluoresces yellow-green under ultraviolet light.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Schröckingerite
- Mineral.image
- Schrockingerite-199668.jpg
- Mineral.category
- Carbonate minerals
- Mineral.formula
- NaCa3(UO2)[F
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Srö
- Mineral.strunz
- 5.EG.05
- Mineral.system
- Triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Pinacoidal () (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P
- Mineral.other
- 25px Radioactive
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- carbonate and nitrate class of minerals
- Image
- Schröckingerite, Hexahydrite, Gypsum.jpg
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- Schröckingerite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 5.EG.05
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 5.EG.05
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Srö
- chemical formula
- NaCa₃(UO₂)(SO₄)(CO₃)₃F·10H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- Vb/D.04
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Schröckingerite is a radioactive yellow uranium-containing carbonate mineral, hydrated sodium calcium uranyl sulfate carbonate fluoride. Schröckingerite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, occurring as globular clusters, and fluoresces yellow-green under ultraviolet light.
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