wassonite
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Wassonite is a scarce titanium sulfide mineral with the chemical formula TiS. Its discovery was announced in a 2011 NASA press release as a single small grain within an enstatite chondrite meteorite called "Yamato 691", which was found during a 1969 Japanese expedition to Antarctica. This grain represents the first observation in nature of the synthetic compound titanium(II) sulfide.
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It sits within the topics Minerals described in 2012, Minerals in space group 166 and Sulfide minerals.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Mineral.name
- Wassonite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- TiS
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Was
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Hexagonal scalenohedral (m) H-M symbol: ( 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Rm
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- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
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- chemical formula
- TiS
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Was
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Wassonite is a scarce titanium sulfide mineral with the chemical formula TiS. Its discovery was announced in a 2011 NASA press release as a single small grain within an enstatite chondrite meteorite called "Yamato 691", which was found during a 1969 Japanese expedition to Antarctica. This grain represents the first observation in nature of the synthetic compound titanium(II) sulfide.
The mineral was named after John T. Wasson, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and was approved by the International Mineralogical Association.
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