Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Wavellite
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.image
- Wavellite-162460.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Wavellite cluster from Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Mauldin Mt., Montgomery County, Arkansas
- Mineral.formula
- Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Wav
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.DC.50
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pcmn
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 9.621 Å b = 17.363 Å, c = 6.994 Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Green to yellowish-green and greenish blue and blue. and yellow, brown, white and colorless
- Mineral.habit
- Spherical, radial aggregates; striated prisms; crusty to stalactitic
- Mineral.cleavage
- [110] perfect, [101] good, [010] distinct
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven to subconchoidal
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5 - 4
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous to resinous, pearly
- Mineral.refractive
- nα = 1.518 - 1.535 nβ = 1.524 - 1.543 nγ = 1.544 - 1.561
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phosphate mineral
- Image
- Wavellit-Quarz-Limonit, Ansicht 2.jpg
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- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Commons category
- Wavellite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.DC.50
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.DC.50
- type locality (geology)
- Filleigh
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Wav
- chemical formula
- Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VII/D.06
Sources (2)
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Article · Español
La wavellita es un mineral de la clase de los minerales fosfatos, y dentro de esta pertenece al llamado “grupo de la wavellita”. Fue descubierta en 1805 en una mina al norte de Devon (Inglaterra), siendo nombrada así en honor de William Wavell, físico inglés que descubrió el mineral. Sinónimos poco usados son: bialita, devonita, fischerita, lasionita, lazionita o zepharovichita.
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