Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Awaruite
- Mineral.category
- Native element mineral
- Mineral.image
- Awaruite-117868.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Awaruite pebble from Josephine County, Oregon, US
- Mineral.formula
- Ni2Fe to Ni3Fe
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Awr
- Mineral.strunz
- 1.AE.20 Metals and intermetallic alloys
- Mineral.dana
- 01.01.11.04 Iron–nickel group
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pmm
- Mineral.color
- Silver-white to grayish white
- Mineral.habit
- Massive; as pebbles, grains and flakes; rarely as crystals; as rims or regular intergrowths with kamacite in meteorites
- Mineral.tenacity
- Malleable and flexible
- Mineral.mohs
- 5.5–6
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
- Mineral.gravity
- 7.8–8.65
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- native element mineral
- Image
- Awaruite-117868.jpg
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- Commons category
- Awaruite
- chemical formula
- Ni₂Fe
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 1.AE.20
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 1.AE.20
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Awr
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- I/A.04c
Sources (2)
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Article · Italiano
L'awaruite è un minerale scoperto nel 1885 lungo il fiume Gorge nei pressi della baia di Awarua in Nuova Zelanda. Il nome deriva dalla località di scoperta. È una lega naturale di nichel e ferro con una composizione variabile fra Ni2Fe e Ni3Fe.
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