Item talk:Q162751

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Mindat Short Description

Phenakite Group.

Crystals prismatic, both stout and slender, terminated by rhombohedra and {0001}, to 20 cm. Commonly tiny simple hexagonal prisms or radial tufts of acicular needles outside of the New Jersey occurrences. Coarse to finely granular, ...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Levy A (1830) Der Willemit, Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1, 71-71

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Zn2SiO4

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Zn2+2SiO4

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