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General Rosickyite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: S
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 32.07 gm
   Sulfur 100.00 %  S
          ______ 
          100.00 % 
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: S
Help on Environment: Environment: Found in fumaroles and in hollow limonite nodules.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1931
Help on Locality: Locality: Havírna and Visky, near Letovice, Morava (Moravia), Czech Republic. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: Named for Vojtech Rosicky, former Director of the Mineralogical and Petrological Institute of Masaryk University, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: ICSD 870
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Rosickyite

Comments: Orange selenian rosickyite (containing 48.9 wt-% Se).
Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg U Deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.
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Rosickyite Crystallography

Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =0.6458:1:0.7059
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 8.5, b = 13.16, c = 9.29, Z = 32; beta = 124.817° V = 853.15 Den(Calc)= 2.00
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: P 2/c
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Watanabe Y , Acta Crystallographica, Section B , 30 (1974) p.1396-1401, The crystal structure of monoclinic gamma-sulfur, Locality: synthetic

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Physical Properties of Rosickyite

Help on Cleavage: Cleavage: None
Help on Color: Color: Colorless, Light yellow.
Help on Density: Density: 2.072 - 2.073, Average = 2.07
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Transparent to Translucent
Help on Habit: Habit: Microscopic Crystals - Crystals visible only with microscopes.
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 2-3 - Gypsum-Calcite
Help on Luster: Luster: Adamantine
Help on Streak: Streak: white
 

Optical Properties of Rosickyite

Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (-), b=1.97-2.058
 

Calculated Properties of Rosickyite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=2.00 gm/cc
note: rRosickyite =2.00 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.0075
Boson Index = 0.9925
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PERosickyite = 5.40 barns/electron
U=PERosickyite x relectron= 10.79 barns/cc.

Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Rosickyite is Not Radioactive

 

Rosickyite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 1.3.5.2 (1)Native Elements
  (1.3)with semi-metallic and non-metallic elements
  (1.3.5)Sulfur Polymorph group
 
1.3.5.1 Sulfur S8 F ddd 2/m 2/m 2/m
 
1.3.5.2 Rosickyite S P 2/c 2/m
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: I/B.03-20 I - Elements
  I/B - Semimetals and nonmetals
  I/B.03 - Sulfur - Selenium series
 
I/B.03-10 Sulfur S8 F ddd 2/m 2/m 2/m
 
I/B.03-20 Rosickyite S P 2/c 2/m
 
I/B.03-30 Selenium Se P 3121,P 3221 3 2
 
I/B.03-40 Tellurium Te P 3121 3 2
 

Other Rosickyite Information

Help on References: References: NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Rosickyite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - EUROmin Project 4 -Google Images 5 -Google Scholar 6 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 7 -MinDAT 8 -MinMax(Deutsch) 9 -MinMax(English) 10 - Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom 11 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 -École des Mines de Paris

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Dana No: 1.3.5.2 Strunz No: I/B.03-20
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