Item talk:Q162594

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Mindat Short Description

The arsenate analogue of brushite. Pharmacolite may be visually very similar to fresh (undehydrated) ferrarisite.

Structurally related to gypsum. Not structurally related to picropharmacolite with whom it is often associated.

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Karsten D L G (1800) Anmerkungen, in Mineralogische Tabellen, Heinrich August Rottmann (Berlin) 75-75

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Ca(AsO3OH) · 2H2O

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Ca(As5+O3OH)·2H2O

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