amicite
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Amicite is a silicate mineral of the zeolite family. It has a general formula of K2Na2Al4Si4O16·5(H2O). Amicite was described in 1979 from specimens obtained at the Höwenegg quarry in Immendingen, Hegau, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, which is consequently its type locality. The name is in honor of Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863) a botanist, physicist, optician, and inventor of microscope optical elements.
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.GC.05
- Commons category
- Amicite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.GC.05
- Mohs' hardness
- 4.5
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ami
- chemical formula
- K₂Na₂(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)·5H₂O
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Amicite is a silicate mineral of the zeolite family. It has a general formula of K2Na2Al4Si4O16·5(H2O). Amicite was described in 1979 from specimens obtained at the Höwenegg quarry in Immendingen, Hegau, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, which is consequently its type locality. The name is in honor of Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863) a botanist, physicist, optician, and inventor of microscope optical elements.
==Structure and optical properties== Amicite is monoclinic, so the crystallography has three axes of unequal length and the angles between two of the axes are 90 degrees and one is less than 90. Amicite is also pseudotetragonal with a = 10.23, b = 10.43, c = 9.88, and d = 89, and belongs to the space group I2.It appears as small colorless crystals, formed by the rhombic prisms {110} and {001}, combined in such a way that the crystal appears to be a dipyramid.