kieserite
Sign in to saveKieserite, or magnesium sulfate monohydrate, is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula (MgSO4·H2O).
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Kieserite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfate minerals
- Mineral.image
- Kieseriet (Kieserite).jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- MgSO4·H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ksr
- Mineral.strunz
- 7.CB.05
- Mineral.dana
- 29.6.2.1
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- C2/c
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 7.51 Å, b = 7.61 Å c = 6.92 Å; β = 116.17°; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, grayish-white or yellowish
- Mineral.habit
- Massive, granular; rarely as pyramidal crystals
- Mineral.twinning
- Contact on {001}, polysynthetic about [110]
- Mineral.cleavage
- {110} and {111} perfect
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven
- Mineral.tenacity
- Fragile
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Kieseriet (Kieserite).jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 7.CB.05
- Commons category
- Kieserite
- chemical formula
- MgSO₄·H₂O
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 7.CB.05
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VI/C.01
- Mohs' hardness
- 3.5
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ksr
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Kieserite, or magnesium sulfate monohydrate, is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula (MgSO4·H2O).