kolbeckite
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Kolbeckite (scandium phosphate dihydrate) is a mineral with formula: ScPO4·2H2O. It was discovered originally at Schmiedeberg, Saxony, Germany in 1926 and is named after Friedrich L. W. Kolbeck, a German mineralogist. Kolbeckite is usually found as small clusters of crystals associated with other phosphate minerals.
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It sits within the topics Minerals in space group 14, Monoclinic minerals and Phosphate minerals.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Kolbeckite
- Mineral.image
- Kolbeckite-215063.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Light-green spherical aggregates of microcrystals of Kolbeckite, to just over 1mm in size. Locality: Schlarbaum quarry, Klause, Bad Gleichenberg, Styria, Austria. Size: 4.9 x 3.9 x 2.3 cm.
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.formula
- ScPO4·2H2O
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Kbe
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.CD.05
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/n
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Kolbeckite-215064.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kolbeckite
- chemical formula
- ScPO₄·2H₂O
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.CD.05
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.CD.05
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Kbe
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VII/C.05a
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Kolbeckite (scandium phosphate dihydrate) is a mineral with formula: ScPO4·2H2O. It was discovered originally at Schmiedeberg, Saxony, Germany in 1926 and is named after Friedrich L. W. Kolbeck, a German mineralogist. Kolbeckite is usually found as small clusters of crystals associated with other phosphate minerals.
==See also== List of minerals List of minerals named after people
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