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Calomel Mineral Data + |
General Calomel Information |
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| Hg2Cl2 | |||
| Molecular Weight = 472.09 gm | |||
| Mercury 84.98 % Hg 88.37 % Hg2O | |||
| Chlorine 15.02 % Cl 15.02 % Cl | |||
| - % Cl -3.39 % -O=Cl2 | |||
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| 100.00 % 100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE | |||
| Hg2Cl2 | |||
| Oxidized mercury deposits. | |||
| Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1776 | |||
| Terlingua, Brewster Co., Texas, USA. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. | |||
| From the Greek, kalos - "beautiful" and melas - "black." | |||
| Horn Quicksilver | |||
| ICSD 64683 | |||
| PDF 26-312 | |||
Calomel Image | |||
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Calomel Crystallography |
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| a:c = 1:2.44719 | |||
| a = 4.45, c = 10.89, Z = 2; V = 215.65 Den(Calc)= 7.27 | |||
| Tetragonal - Ditetragonal DipyramidalH-M Symbol (4/m 2/m 2/m) Space Group: I 4/mmm | |||
| By Intensity(I/Io): 3.164(1), 4.141(0.97), 1.97(0.38), | |||
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Physical Properties of Calomel |
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| [100] Poor, [011] Poor | |||
| White, Yellowish gray, Gray, Yellowish white, Brown. | |||
| 6.4 - 6.5, Average = 6.45 | |||
| Translucent to subtranslucent | |||
| Sectile - Curved shavings or scrapings produced by a knife blade, (e.g. graphite). | |||
| Earthy - Dull, clay-like texture with no visible crystalline affinities, (e.g. howlite). | |||
| Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline). | |||
| 1.5-2 - Talc-Gypsum | |||
| Fluorescent. | |||
| Adamantine - Resinous | |||
| pale yellowish white | |||
Optical Properties of Calomel |
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| colorless. | |||
| colorless. | |||
| CI meas= -0.162 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC) CI calc= -0.031 (Excellent) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC) KPDcalc= 0.1802,KPDmeas= 0.2031,KC= 0.1747 |
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| Uniaxial (+), w=1.97, e=2.65, bire=0.6800. | |||
Calculated Properties of Calomel |
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relectron=5.98 gm/cc |
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| Fermion Index = 0.25664 Boson Index = 0.74336 |
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PECalomel =1,464.64 barns/electron |
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| GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) Calomel is Not Radioactive |
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Calomel Classification |
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| 9.1.8.1 (9)Anhydrous and Hydrated Halides | |||
| (9.1)where A X | |||
| (9.1.8)Dana Group | |||
| III/A.05-10 III - Halogenides | |||
| III/A - Simple halogenides, without water Metal : Halogen = 1 : 1 | |||
| III/A.05 - Calomel - Moschelite series | |||
Other Calomel Information |
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| NAME( Duda&Rejl90) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(Ford32) | |||
| Links to other databases for Calomel : 1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 - Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery 3 -Athena 4 - EUROmin Project 5 -Google Images 6 -Google Scholar 7 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 8 -MinDAT 9 -MinMax(Deutsch) 10 -MinMax(English) 11 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 - WWW-MINCRYST 14 -École des Mines de Paris Search for Calomel using: Visit our Advertisers for Calomel : Translate Calomel Mineral Data : Ask about Calomel here : Print or Cut-and-Paste your Calomel Specimen Label here :
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