wakabayashilite
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Wakabayashilite is a rare arsenic, antimony sulfide mineral with formula .
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Wakabayashilite
- Mineral.category
- Arsenic sulfide, Sulfosalt mineral
- Mineral.image
- Wakabayashilite-Calcite-176729.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260
- Mineral.caption
- Wakabayashilite on calcite
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Wak
- Mineral.molweight
- 1291.8 gram/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.FA.40
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Pyramidal (mm2) H-M symbol: (mm2)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pna21
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 25.262 Å, b = 14.563 Å c = 6.492 Å and V = 2388.4 Å3; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Golden yellow, lemon yellow, orange yellow
- Mineral.habit
- Fibrous
- Mineral.cleavage
- {100} Perfect, {010} Perfect and {101} Perfect
- Mineral.mohs
- 1.5
- Mineral.luster
- Silky
- Mineral.pleochroism
- Strong
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Wakabayashilite-Calcite-176729.jpg
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- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Commons category
- Wakabayashilite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.FA.40
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.FA.40
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Wak
- chemical formula
- [(As,Sb)₆S₉][As₄S₅]
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Discovery and occurrence
- Structure and optical properties
- References
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Wakabayashilite is a rare arsenic, antimony sulfide mineral with formula .
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