niningerite
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Niningerite is a magnesium–iron–manganese sulfide mineral with the chemical formula MgS that is found in enstatite chondrite meteorites. Niningerite is the magnesium-dominant analog of keilite. This mineral is named after Harvey H. Nininger.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Niningerite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide minerals
- Mineral.formula
- MgS
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Nng
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.CD.10
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fmm
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.2 Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- grey
- Mineral.mohs
- – 4
- Mineral.luster
- metallic
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- opaque
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.CD.10
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.CD.10
- chemical formula
- MgS
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Nng
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.11
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Niningerite is a magnesium–iron–manganese sulfide mineral with the chemical formula MgS that is found in enstatite chondrite meteorites. Niningerite is the magnesium-dominant analog of keilite. This mineral is named after Harvey H. Nininger.
==See also== Glossary of meteoritics
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