krinovite
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Krinovite (pronounced kreen'-off-ite) is an emerald-green triclinic meteorite mineral, containing chromium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium, of the aenigmatite group. "It has been discovered within graphite nodules in three iron meteorites," specifically the Canyon Diablo, Wichita County, and Youndegin meteorites. It was named in honour of Evgeny Leonidovich Krinov, Russian investigator of meteorites. It is a decaoxotrisilicate in the sorosilicate subclass.
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.DH.45
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.DH.40
- type locality (geology)
- Canyon Diablo meteorite
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- Krinovite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Kvi
- chemical formula
- Na₂Mg₄Cr³⁺₂(Si₆O₁₈)O₂
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/B.18
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Krinovite (pronounced kreen'-off-ite) is an emerald-green triclinic meteorite mineral, containing chromium, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium, of the aenigmatite group. "It has been discovered within graphite nodules in three iron meteorites," specifically the Canyon Diablo, Wichita County, and Youndegin meteorites. It was named in honour of Evgeny Leonidovich Krinov, Russian investigator of meteorites. It is a decaoxotrisilicate in the sorosilicate subclass.
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