File:Mineral_Silvina_GDFL105.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Sylvite
- Mineral.category
- Halide mineral
- Mineral.image
- Mineral Silvina GDFL105.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 250px
- Mineral.formula
- KCl
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Syl
- Mineral.molweight
- 74.55 g/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.AA.20
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fm3m
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 6.2931 Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Colorless to white, pale gray, pale blue; may be yellowish red to red due to hematite inclusions
- Mineral.habit
- As cubes and octahedra; columnar, in crusts, coarse granular, massive
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on [100], [010], [001]
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle to ductile
- Mineral.mohs
- 2
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- halide class of minerals
- Has part
- potassium chloride
- Named after
- Franciscus Sylvius
- Image
- Mineral Silvina GDFL105.jpg
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- III/A.02
- Commons category
- Sylvite
- chemical formula
- KCl
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.AA.20
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.AA.20
- type locality (geology)
- Mount Vesuvius
- Mohs' hardness
- 2
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- contains
- potassium chloride
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Syl
- density
- 1987
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Article · Italiano
La silvite è un minerale, un cloruro di potassio, appartenente al gruppo dell'halite. Il nome deriva da Franciscus Sylvius (15 marzo 1614 - 16 novembre 1672), naturalista e chimico olandese. Descritta per la prima volta da François Sulpice Beudant, geologo e mineralogista francese.
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