barstowite
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Barstowite, formula Pb4[Cl6|CO3]•H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3, a white streak and an adamantine lustre.
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Within Vinony's link graph, barstowite is referenced by 8 other articles, and connects out to Mohs scale of mineral hardness, United Kingdom and Cornwall.
Vinony files it under Carbonate minerals, Chloride minerals and Lead minerals.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Barstowite
- Mineral.category
- Halide minerals
- Mineral.image
- Barstowite-90280.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Barstowite from Passa Limani area, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
- Mineral.formula
- Pb4[Cl6
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Bsw
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.DC.95
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/m
- Mineral.color
- White to transparent
- Mineral.mohs
- 3
- Mineral.luster
- Adamantine
- Mineral.streak
- White
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- halide class of minerals
- Image
- Barstowite-90280.jpg
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- Commons category
- Barstowite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.DC.95
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.DC.95
- streak color
- white
- Mohs' hardness
- 3
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Bsw
- chemical formula
- Pb₄Cl₆(CO₃)·H₂O
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Encyclopedic overview
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Barstowite, formula Pb4[Cl6|CO3]•H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3, a white streak and an adamantine lustre.
The type locality for Barstowite is Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It is named after Richard W. Barstow (1947–1982), a Cornish mineral collector.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “barstowite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.