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aksaite (mineral)
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General properties
formula | MgB_6O_7(OH)_6·2(H_2O) discovery year | 1962
Basic properties
density | 1.99 g/cm^3 transparency | transparent birefringence | 0.054 Mohs hardness | 2.5 streak | white magnetism | nonmagnetic color | colorless | gray | light gray molar mass | 339.2 g/mol (grams per mole)
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Mineral identifiers
Strunz ID | V/H.17-30 Dana ID | 26.6.4.1 ICSD number | ICSD15212
Crystallographic properties
crystal system | orthorhombic crystal class | 2/m2/m2/m unit cell volume | 2285 Å^3 (cubic ångströms) d-spacing | 6.4 Å (ångströms) | 4.72 Å (ångströms) | 6.1 Å (ångströms) intensity | 100% | 50% | 50% molecules per unit cell | 8 molecules per cell 2V angle | 79 π/180 radians≈79° (degrees) refractive indices | 1.472 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 dispersion | none unit cell lengths | 12.54 Å (ångströms) | 24.35 Å (ångströms) | 7.484 Å (ångströms) unit cell angles | 90° (degrees) | 90° (degrees) | 90° (degrees)
Wikipedia summary
Aksaite (Mg·2H_2O) is a mineral found in Kazakhstan.