Sweetite
Sweetite has a general formula of Zn(OH)2. The name is given after a curator of mineral department of The British Museum, Jessie May Sweet (1901–1979). It occurs in an oxidized vein in limestone bedrock with galena, ashoverite, , anglesite, cerussite, hydrocerussite, litharge, fluorite, palygorskite and calcite. Sweetite is mostly found from a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
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Sweetite
Sweetite has a general formula of Zn(OH)2. The name is given after a curator of mineral department of The British Museum, Jessie May Sweet (1901–1979). It occurs in an oxidized vein in limestone bedrock with galena, ashoverite, , anglesite, cerussite, hydrocerussite, litharge, fluorite, palygorskite and calcite. Sweetite is mostly found from a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
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La sweetita és un mineral de l ...... e minerals del British Museum.
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La sweetite è un minerale.
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Sweetita oxido motako minerala da.
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Sweetite has a general formula ...... Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
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Hydroxide mineral
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class
Trapezohedral
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cleavage
None
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color
Colorless, white
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diaphaneity
Transparent to translucent
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formula
Zn2
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fracture
Irregular
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gravity
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Bipyramidal
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Vitreous
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Sweetite
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uniaxial
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refractive
nω = 1.635 nε = 1.628
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streak
White
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symmetry
P41212 or P43212
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system
Unknown space group
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V = 968.93 Å3; Z = 20
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a = 8.22, c = 14.34 [Å]
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La sweetita és un mineral de l ...... e minerals del British Museum.
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La sweetite è un minerale.
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Sweetita oxido motako minerala da.
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Sweetite has a general formula ...... Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
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Sweetita
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Sweetita
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Sweetite
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Sweetite
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Sweetite
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