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
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