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Dypingite Mineral Data + |
General Dypingite Information |
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| Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·5(H2O) | |||
| Molecular Weight = 485.65 gm | |||
| Magnesium 25.02 % Mg 41.50 % MgO | |||
| Hydrogen 2.49 % H 22.26 % H2O | |||
| Carbon 9.89 % C 36.25 % CO2 | |||
| Oxygen 62.59 % O | |||
| ______ ______ | |||
| 100.00 % 100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE | |||
| Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·5(H2O) | |||
| Alteration product in serpentines. | |||
| Approved IMA 1970 | |||
| Dypingdal serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Norway. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. | |||
| Named after the locality. | |||
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Dypingite Crystallography |
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| a:b:c =0.6848:1:0.397 | |||
| a = 16.3, b = 23.8, c = 9.45, Z = 8; beta = 90° V = 3,666.03 Den(Calc)= 1.76 | |||
| MonoclinicSpace Group: Unk. | |||
| By Intensity(I/Io): 10.6(1), 5.86(0.9), 6.34(0.6), | |||
Physical Properties of Dypingite |
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| White. | |||
| 2.15 | |||
| Aggregates - Made of numerous individual crystals or clusters. | |||
| Globular - Spherical, or nearly so, rounded forms (e.g. wavellite). | |||
| Fluorescent and phosphorescent, Short UV=light blue. | |||
| Pearly | |||
| white | |||
Optical Properties of Dypingite |
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| CI meas= -0.011 (Superior) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC) CI calc= -0.236 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC) KPDcalc= 0.2905,KPDmeas= 0.2378,KC= 0.2351 |
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| Biaxial (+), a=1.508, b=1.51, g=1.516, bire=0.0080 | |||
| colorless. | |||
| colorless. | |||
| colorless. | |||
Calculated Properties of Dypingite |
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relectron=2.20 gm/cc |
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| Fermion Index = 0.02641 Boson Index = 0.97359 |
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PEDypingite = 0.75 barns/electron |
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| GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) Dypingite is Not Radioactive |
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Dypingite Classification |
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| 16b.7.2.1 (16b)Carbonates - Hydroxyl or Halogen | |||
| (16b.7)Dana Type | |||
| (16b.7.2)Dana Group | |||
| V/E.01-20 V - Nitrates, Carbonates and Borates | |||
| V/E - Water-bearing carbonates with unfamiliar anions | |||
| V/E.01 - Hydromagnesite - Brugnatellite series | |||
Other Dypingite Information |
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| NAME( Dana8) PHYS. PROP.(Dana) OPTIC PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) | |||
| Links to other databases for Dypingite : 1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - Crocoite.com Mineral Locations 4 - EUROmin Project 5 - Franklin Minerals(Dunn) 6 -Google Images 7 -Google Scholar 8 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 9 -MinDAT 10 -MinMax(Deutsch) 11 -MinMax(English) 12 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 13 -QUT Mineral Atlas 14 -École des Mines de Paris Search for Dypingite using: Visit our Advertisers for Dypingite : Translate Dypingite Mineral Data : Ask about Dypingite here : Print or Cut-and-Paste your Dypingite Specimen Label here :
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