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Mindat Short Description

Datolite is the second described mineral in the gadolinite supergroup.

The structure of datolite consists of sheets of four- and eight-membered rings of corner-sharing, alternating (HBO4) and (SiO4) tetrahedra, classifying it as a phyllo-borosilica...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Klaproth M H (1806) Chemische untersuchung des datoliths, Neues Allgemeines Journal der Chemie 6, 107-110

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

CaB(SiO4)(OH)

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

CaB(SiO4)(OH)

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