vishnevite
Sign in to saveVishnevite, or sulfatic cancrinite, is a mineral of the cancrinite group with the chemical formula (Na, Ca, K)6(Si, Al)12O24[(SO4),(CO3), Cl2]2-4·nH2O. It has hexagonal crystals.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Vishnevite
- Mineral.image
- Vishnevite - sulfate cancrinite w- orthoclase and melanite Hydrous sodium calcium potassium aluminum silicate sulfate and carbonate Loch Borrolan Sutherland Scotland 1650.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Vishnevite from Scotland
- Mineral.category
- Tectosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Feldspathoid group, cancrinite group
- Mineral.formula
- (Na,Ca,K)6(Si,Al)12O24[(SO4),(CO3),Cl2]2-4·nH2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Vhn
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.FB.05
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Pyramidal (6) H-M symbol: (6)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P63
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 12.7228(3) c = 5.198(3) [Å]; Z = 1
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, light blue, orange-yellow, white
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect
- Mineral.mohs
- 5 - 6
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous, pearly
- Mineral.streak
- White
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Vishnevite4 Casale IC 05mm-5.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vishnevite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.FB.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.FB.05
- type locality (geology)
- Ilmen Nature Reserve
- crystal system
- hexagonal crystal system
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Vhn
- chemical formula
- Na₈(Al₆Si₆)O₂₄(SO₄)·2H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/F.05
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Vishnevite, or sulfatic cancrinite, is a mineral of the cancrinite group with the chemical formula (Na, Ca, K)6(Si, Al)12O24[(SO4),(CO3), Cl2]2-4·nH2O. It has hexagonal crystals.
==References==
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