Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Wüstite
- Mineral.category
- Oxide mineral
- Mineral.image
- Wüstite-110970.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260
- Mineral.formula
- FeO
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Wüs
- Mineral.strunz
- 4.AB.25
- Mineral.color
- Greyish white to yellow or brown; colorless in thin section
- Mineral.habit
- Pyramidic, prismatic
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H–M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fm3m (no. 225)
- Mineral.cleavage
- {001} perfect
- Mineral.fracture
- Subconchoidal to rough
- Mineral.mohs
- 5–5.5
- Mineral.refractive
- 1.735–2.32 in synthetic crystals
- Mineral.pleochroism
- None
- Mineral.gravity
- 5.88
via Wikipedia infobox