tienshanite
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Tienshanite, named for the Tian Shan Range in Mongolia, is a rare borosilicate mineral, though rock-forming in some parts of its original locality at the Dara-i-Pioz Glacier in Tajikistan. Its formula is extremely complex: .
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Vinony files it under Borate minerals, Borosilicates and Cyclosilicates.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cyclosilicates
- Named after
- Tianshan Mountains
- Image
- Tienshanite.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.CL.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.CL.05
- crystal system
- hexagonal crystal system
- Commons category
- Tienshanite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Tsh
- chemical formula
- KNa₃Na₆Ca₂Ba₆Mn₆(Ti₄+,Nb)₆B₁₂Si₃₆O₁₁₄(O,OH,F)₁₁
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/C.08 – Anhang
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Tienshanite, named for the Tian Shan Range in Mongolia, is a rare borosilicate mineral, though rock-forming in some parts of its original locality at the Dara-i-Pioz Glacier in Tajikistan. Its formula is extremely complex: .
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tienshanite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.