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Fluorite is a naturally occurring mineral made of calcium and fluoride that typically forms cube-shaped crystals. It's used in various industrial applications and is valued by collectors and scientists for its distinct crystalline structure.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Fluorite
- Mineral.category
- Halide mineral
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 305c3c
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- fff
- Mineral.image
- 3192M-fluorite1.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Deep green isolated fluorite crystal resembling a truncated octahedron, set upon a micaceous matrix, from Erongo Mountain, Erongo Region, Namibia (overall size: 50 mm × 27 mm, crystal size: 19 mm wide, 30 g)
- Mineral.formula
- CaF2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Flr
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.AB.25
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H–M symbol: (4/m 2/m) (cF12)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fmm (No. 225)
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.4626 Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, although samples are often deeply colored owing to impurities; Purple, lilac, golden-yellow, green, blue, pink, champagne, brown.
- Mineral.habit
- Well-formed coarse sized crystals; also nodular, botryoidal, rarely columnar or fibrous; granular, massive
- Mineral.twinning
- Common on {111}, interpenetrant, flattened
- Mineral.cleavage
- Octahedral, perfect on {111}, parting on {011}
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- halide class of minerals
- Has part
- calcium fluoride
- Named after
- fluid flow
- Image
- Fluorite crystals 270x444.jpg
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- color
- gold
- Mohs' hardness
- 4
- Commons category
- Fluorite
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- chemical formula
- CaF₂
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.AB.25
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.AB.25
- topic's main category
- Category:Fluorite
- type locality (geology)
- Jáchymov
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- III/A.07
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Flr
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Article · Italiano
La fluorite, chiamata anche fluorina o spatofluore, è un minerale molto comune composto da fluoruro di calcio. È il più importante dei minerali fluorurati.
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