homilite
Sign in to saveHomilite is a borosilicate mineral belonging to the gadolinite group of minerals with formula .
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Within Vinony's link graph, homilite is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to silicate mineral, Norway and Greek.
Vinony files it under Borate minerals, Borosilicates and Calcium minerals.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/b
- Mineral.name
- Homilite
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.category
- Nesosilicate
- Mineral.formula
- Ca2(Fe2+,Mg)B2Si2O10
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Hom
- Mineral.strunz
- 8/B.29-30
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m)
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 9.78 Å, b = 7.61 Å, c = 4.78 Å; β = 90.56°; Z = ?
- Mineral.color
- Greenish to brownish black
- Mineral.mohs
- 5–
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous, resinous
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
- Mineral.gravity
- 3.34
- Mineral.opticalprop
- Biaxial (+)
- Mineral.refractive
- nα = 1.715 nβ = 1.725 nγ = 1.738
- Mineral.birefringence
- δ =
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- association
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.AJ.20
- chemical formula
- Ca₂Fe²⁺B₂Si₂O₁₀
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.AJ.20
- type locality (geology)
- Langesundsfjord
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Hom
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/A’.12
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Homilite is a borosilicate mineral belonging to the gadolinite group of minerals with formula .
It occurs as brown monoclinic crystals (space group P21/a) within feldspar masses in pegmatite and was discovered in 1876 in Stoko island, Langesundfiord, Norway. The name is from the Greek for to occur together, in allusion to its association with meliphanite and allanite.
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