stützite
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Stützite or stuetzite is a silver telluride mineral with formula: Ag5−xTe3 (with x = 0.24 to 0.36) or Ag7Te4.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Stützite
- Mineral.category
- Telluride mineral
- Mineral.image
- Stutzite-Tellurium-169921.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Stützite from the Moctezuma Mine, Sonora, Mexico (size:3.7 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm)
- Mineral.formula
- Ag5−xTe3 (with x = 0.24 to 0.36)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Stz
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.30e
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Dihexagonal dipyramidal (6/mmm) H-M symbol: (6/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P6/mmm
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 13.38, c = 8.45 [Å]; Z = 7
- Mineral.color
- Dark lead-gray
- Mineral.habit
- Massive, compact, granular
- Mineral.cleavage
- None observed
- Mineral.fracture
- Subconchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Stutzite-Tellurium-169921.jpg
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- general formula
- Ag₅₋ₓTe₃ (x = 0.24-0.36)
- Commons category
- Stützite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.65
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.30e
- type locality (geology)
- Săcărâmb
- crystal system
- hexagonal crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Stz
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.03 – Anhang
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Stützite or stuetzite is a silver telluride mineral with formula: Ag5−xTe3 (with x = 0.24 to 0.36) or Ag7Te4.
It was first described in 1951 from a museum specimen from Sacarimb, Romania. It was named for Austrian mineralogist Andreas Xaverius Stütz (1747–1806).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stützite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.