Item talk:Q162390
Mindat Short Description
Apatite Group. The fluorine analogue of chlorapatite and hydroxylapatite, phosphate analogue of svabite. The Ca5 analogue of belovite-(Ce), belovite-(La), and kuannersuite-(Ce). Note that the five cation sites are non-equivalent and substituents in th...
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Gerhards C A (1786) Erster Ahnung. Von einigen noch nicht genau bestimmten und ganz neu entdecken Mineralien, in Grundriss des Mineralsystems, Christian Friedrich Himburg (Berlin) 281-287 Name changed from apatite to fluorapatite: Rose G (1827) Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Apatite. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 85, 185-214 Name changed from fluorapatite to apatite-(CaF): Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135 Name changed from apatite-(CaF) back to fluorapatite: Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Ca5(PO4)3F
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Ca5(PO4)3F
