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سیدریت
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Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3). Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "iron". A valuable iron ore, it consists of 48% iron and lacks sulfur and phosphorus. Zinc, magnesium, and manganese commonly substitute for the iron, resulting in the siderite-smithsonite, siderite-magnesite, and siderite-rhodochrosite solid solution series.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Siderite
- Mineral.category
- Carbonate mineral
- Mineral.image
- Harvard Museum of Natural History. Siderite. Gilman, Eagle Co., CO (DerHexer) 2012-07-20.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- FeCO3
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Sd
- Mineral.strunz
- 5.AB.05
- Mineral.dana
- 14.01.01.03
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Hexagonal scalenohedral (m) H-M symbol: ( 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Rc
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 4.6916 c = 15.3796 [Å]; Z = 6
- Mineral.color
- Pale yellow to tan, grey, brown, green, red, black and sometimes nearly colorless
- Mineral.habit
- Tabular crystals, often curved; botryoidal to massive
- Mineral.twinning
- Lamellar uncommon on{012}
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {011}
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven to conchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- iron(II) carbonate
- Named after
- iron
- Image
- Baryt-siderit lauterberg hg.jpg
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- Commons category
- Siderite
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 5.AB.05
- chemical formula
- FeCO₃
- solid solution series with
- magnesite
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 5.AB.05
- streak color
- white
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- Vb/A.02
- Mohs' hardness
- 4.00
- density
- 3.96
- different from
- iron meteorite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Sd
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