Lafossaite (original) (raw)
Specific Gravity:
7.212 (Calculated)
Name:
After the type locality the La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Lipari, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy.
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:27521:1
f759fccd-92c1-4fc0-8c60-ec05fc6c9a9a
Birefringence:
Isotropic minerals have no birefringence
Colour in reflected light:
Grey - white
Internal Reflections:
white
Pleochroism:
Non-pleochroic
Class (H-M):
m_3_m _(_4/_m_32/m ) - Hexoctahedral
Cell Parameters:
a = 3.8756 Å
Morphology:
cubes to octahedra
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| ID | Species | Reference | Link | Year | Locality | Pressure (GPa) | Temp (K) |
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| 0018090 | Lafossaite | Moeller K (1933) Eine fur Praezisionsbestimmungen von Gitterkonstanten nach der Debye- Scherrer-Methode besonders geeignete Eichsubstanz _cod_database_code 1011364 Naturwissenschaften 21 223-223 | 1933 | 0 | 293 | ||
| 0018089 | Lafossaite | Roberts A C, Venance K E, Seward T M, Grice J D, Paar W H (2006) Lafossaite, a new mineral from the La Fossa Crater, Vulcano, Italy The Mineralogical Record 37 165-168 | 2006 | La Fossa Crater, Vulcano, Italy | 0 | 293 |
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