tiemannite
Sign in to saveTiemannite is a mineral, mercury selenide, formula HgSe. It occurs in hydrothermal veins associated with other selenides, or other mercury minerals such as cinnabar, and often with calcite. Discovered in 1855 in Germany, it is named after Johann Carl Wilhelm Tiemann (1848–1899).
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Tiemannite
- Mineral.category
- Selenide mineral
- Mineral.image
- Tiemannit.jpg
- Mineral.formula
- HgSe
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Tmn
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.CB.05a
- Mineral.dana
- 02.08.02.04
- Mineral.color
- Steel-gray to black
- Mineral.habit
- Massive and as euhedral crystals
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Hextetrahedral (3m) H-M symbol: ( 3m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- F3m
- Mineral.cleavage
- none
- Mineral.mohs
- 2.5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- grayish black
- Mineral.gravity
- 8.19–8.47
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- opaque
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- Tiemannite-199865.jpg
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- Tiemannite
- chemical formula
- HgSe
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.CB.05a
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.CB.05a
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Tmn
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.01
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Tiemannite is a mineral, mercury selenide, formula HgSe. It occurs in hydrothermal veins associated with other selenides, or other mercury minerals such as cinnabar, and often with calcite. Discovered in 1855 in Germany, it is named after Johann Carl Wilhelm Tiemann (1848–1899).
==See also== List of minerals List of minerals named after people
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