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abhurite (mineral)
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General properties
formula | Sn_3O(OH)_2Cl_2 discovery year | 1983
Basic properties
density | 4.315 g/cm^3 transparency | transparent birefringence | 0.05 luster | chatoyant Mohs hardness | 2 tenacity | fragile streak | white magnetism | nonmagnetic color | colorless fracture | hackly molar mass | 477.1 g/mol (grams per mole)
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Mineral identifiers
Strunz ID | III/D.05-10 Dana ID | 10.5.9.1 IMA number | IMA1983-061 ICSD number | ICSD15581
Crystallographic properties
crystal system | trigonal crystal class | 32 unit cell volume | 3827 Å^3 (cubic ångströms) d-spacing | 2.531 Å (ångströms) | 2.892 Å (ångströms) | 4.139 Å (ångströms) intensity | 100% | 70% | 50% molecules per unit cell | 21 molecules per cell refractive indices | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.06 | 0 | 0 unit cell lengths | 10.02 Å (ångströms) | 44.03 Å (ångströms) | 44.03 Å (ångströms) unit cell angles | 90° (degrees) | 90° (degrees) | 120° (degrees)
Wikipedia summary
Abhurite is a mineral of tin, oxygen, hydrogen, and chlorine with the formula Sn_21O_6(OH)_14Cl_16 or Sn_3O(OH)_2Cl_2. It is named after its type locality, a shipwreck with tin ingots at Sharm Abhur, a cove near Jeddah in the Red Sea. Abhurite forms alongside other tin minerals like romarchite and cassiterite.