Chemistry:Moschellandsbergite
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Short description: Isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver
| Moschellandsbergite | |
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| General | |
| Category | Metals and intermetallic alloys |
| Formula (repeating unit) | silver amalgam, Ag2Hg3 |
| Strunz classification | 1.AD.15d |
| Crystal system | Isometric |
| Crystal class | Tetartoidal (23) (same H-M symbol) |
| Space group | I23 |
| Unit cell | a = 10.04 Å, Z = 10 |
| Identification | |
| Color | white, tarnishes grey |
| Cleavage | brittle |
| Mohs scale hardness | 3.5 |
| |re|er}} | metallic |
| Specific gravity | 13.48 |
| References | [1][2][3][4] |
Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.
It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany .[3][6] It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.[2]
References
- ↑ Mineralienatlas
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mineral Handbook
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mindat
- ↑ Webmineral
- ↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine 85 (3): 291–320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. Bibcode: 2021MinM...85..291W.
- ↑ American Geological Institute (1997). Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms. Alexandria, Virginia: Birkhäuser. pp. 356. ISBN 0-922152-36-5.
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