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Key facts
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 747827
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- fff
- Mineral.name
- Vesuvianite
- Mineral.category
- Sorosilicate
- Mineral.image
- Vesuvianite-242685.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Vesuvianite from the Jeffrey Mine in Val-des-Sources, Quebec
- Mineral.formula
- Ca10(Mg, Fe)2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH,F)4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ves
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.BG.35
- Mineral.system
- Tetragonal
- Mineral.class
- Ditetragonal dipyramidal (4/mmm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P4/nnc
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 15.52 Å, c = 11.82 Å Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Yellow, green, brown; colorless to white, brown-black, light green, emerald green, violet, blue-green to blue, pink, purple, red, black, commonly zoned
- Mineral.habit
- Short pyramidal to long prismatic crystals common, massive to columnar
- Mineral.twinning
- Fine twin domains observed
- Mineral.cleavage
- Poor on {110} and {100} very poor on {001}
- Mineral.fracture
- Sub conchoidal to irregular
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cyclosilicates
- Named after
- Mount Vesuvius
- Image
- Vesuvianite-196065.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.BG.35
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.BG.35
- Commons category
- Vesuvianite
- crystal system
- tetragonal crystal system
- type locality (geology)
- Mount Somma
- streak color
- white
- Mohs' hardness
- 6.5
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ves
- chemical formula
- (Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/B.17
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