stibiopalladinite
Sign in to saveStibiopalladinite is a mineral containing the chemical elements palladium and antimony. Its chemical formula is Pd5Sb2. It is a silvery white to steel grey opaque mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal crystal system.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Stibiopalladinite
- Mineral.image
- Stibiopalladinite - Mineralogisches Museum Bonn.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Stibiopalladinite (metallic, center, below)
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- Pd5Sb2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Stpdn
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.AC.20a
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Dihexagonal pyramidal (6mm) H-M symbol: (6mm)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P63cm
- Mineral.color
- Silver, white to steel-gray
- Mineral.mohs
- 4–5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- Black
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Named after
- chemical composition
- Image
- Stibiopalladinite - Mineralogisches Museum Bonn.jpg
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- type locality (geology)
- Bushveld igneous complex
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.AC.20a
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.AC.20a
- Commons category
- Stibiopalladinite
- streak color
- black
- crystal system
- hexagonal crystal system
- chemical formula
- Pd₅Sb₂
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Stpdn
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A’.04
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Stibiopalladinite is a mineral containing the chemical elements palladium and antimony. Its chemical formula is Pd5Sb2. It is a silvery white to steel grey opaque mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal crystal system.
It was first described in 1929 for an occurrence in the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa.
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