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مونازیت
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Monazite is a primarily reddish-brown phosphate mineral that contains rare-earth elements. Due to variability in composition, monazite is considered a group of minerals. The most common species of the group is monazite-(Ce), that is, the cerium-dominant member of the group.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Monazite
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.image
- Monazite-(Ce)-164025.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Monazite-(Ce)
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.AD.50
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H–M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/n
- Mineral.color
- Orange, purple, reddish brown, brown, pale yellow, pink, blue, green, gray,
- Mineral.habit
- Commonly as prismatic or wedge-shaped crystals
- Mineral.twinning
- Contact twins common
- Mineral.cleavage
- Distinct on [100] poor on [010]
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal to uneven
- Mineral.prop1
- Magnetism
- Mineral.prop1text
- Paramagnetic, moderately strongly
- Mineral.mohs
- 5.0–5.5
- Mineral.luster
- Resinous, vitreous to adamantine
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phosphate mineral
- Image
- Monazite-48115.jpg
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- Commons category
- Monazite
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- different from
- monocyte
- contains
- thorium
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