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Mirabilite

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Also known as natural Glauber's salt

minerale

Key facts

Mineral.name
Mirabilite
Mineral.category
Sulfate minerals
Mineral.image
Mangxiao.jpg
Mineral.imagesize
260px
Mineral.formula
Na2SO4·10H2O
Mineral.IMAsymbol
Mrb
Mineral.molweight
322.9 g/mol
Mineral.strunz
7.CD.10
Mineral.system
Monoclinic
Mineral.class
Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
Mineral.symmetry
P21/c
Mineral.color
Colorless, white, yellowish-white, greenish-white
Mineral.habit
Granular or well-formed coarse crystals
Mineral.twinning
Interpenetration twinning on {001}; also on {100}
Mineral.cleavage
{100} perfect, {001} poor, {010} poor
Mineral.fracture
Conchoidal
Mineral.mohs
1.5–2
Mineral.luster
Vitreous

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
sulfate mineral
Image
Thenardite-Mirabilite-210778.jpg
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Commons category
Mirabilite
chemical formula
Na₂SO₄·10H₂O
Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
7.CD.10
Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
7.CD.10
streak color
white
IMA Mineral Symbol
Mrb
Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
VI/C.15
Sources (1)

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Article · Italiano

La mirabilite è un minerale, un solfato decaidrato di sodio. Deriva dalla locuzione: Sal mirabile glauberi ovvero "meraviglioso sale di Glauber" come la descrisse Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604 - 1670), chimico e alchimista tedesco.

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