fraipontite
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Fraipontite is a zinc aluminium silicate mineral with a formula of .
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Fraipontite
- Mineral.image
- Fraipontite-sea52a.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Pockets of minute pearly white fraipontite crystals with green smithsonite from Laurium, Greece (size: 1.4 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm)
- Mineral.category
- Phyllosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Kaolinite-Serpentine group, serpentine subgroup
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Fpt
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.ED.15
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Domatic (m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Cm
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.34, b = 9.21 c = 14.12 [Å]; β = 93.2°; Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Blueish, yellow white light green
- Mineral.habit
- Fibrous to porcelaneous massive
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5 – 4
- Mineral.luster
- Silky
- Mineral.streak
- White to pale green
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque to translucent
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- serpentine mineral subgroup
- Named after
- duo
- Image
- Fraipontite-sea52a.jpg
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Fpt
- chemical formula
- (Zn,Al)₃(Si,Al)₂O₅(OH)₄
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/A’.03
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.ED.15
- Commons category
- Fraipontite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.ED.15
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
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Fraipontite is a zinc aluminium silicate mineral with a formula of .
It is a member of the kaolinite-serpentine mineral group and occurs as an oxidation product of zinc deposits. It occurs with smithsonite, gebhardite, willemite, cerussite and sauconite.
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