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Hypercinnabar

Collectors Summary

Color grauweiß
Streak color rötlich schwarz
Hardness (Mohs) 2.5
Crystal System hexagonal,

Chemism

Chemical formula

HgS

Chemical composition

Quecksilber, Schwefel

Unit weight: 232.6575 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 2

Info

Empirical formula:

HgS

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Sulfur

S

13.78

1

50.00

32.0655000

32.0655000
Mercury

Hg

86.22

1

50.00

200.5920000

200.5920000

Analysis wt%

Hg : 86.23, S : 13.77 (Ref: berechnet)

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

2.CB.45

2: Sulfide und Sulfosalze (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide, Sulfarsenite, Sulfantimonite, Sulfbismuthite)
C: Metallsulfide, M : S = 1 : 1 (und ähnliche)
B: mit Zink (Zn), Eisen (Fe), Kupfer (Cu), Silber (Ag), usw.
45:Wurtzit-Gruppe

Lapis Classification

II/C.18-020

II: SULFIDE UND SULFOSALZE (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide)
C: Sulfide mit Metall : S,Se,Te ~ 1:1

Classification by Hölzel

2.CB.670

2: SULFIDES
C: Sulfides (etc) with Me/S=1/1
B: With Zn,Cu (etc), Coordination Number ~[4] Framework of Cornersharing Tetrahedra: Sphalerite-Germanite-Family
6: Wurtzite-Cubanite Family Wurtzite-Group

Dana 8th edition

02.08.08.01

02: Sulfide Minerals
08: Sulfides - Including Selenides and Tellurides where Am Bn Xp, with (m+n):p=1:1

IMA status

Anerkannt von der CNMNC

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

grauweiß

Streak color

rötlich schwarz

Crystallography

Crystal System

hexagonal

Cell parameters a (Å)

7.01

Cell parameters b (Å)

-

Cell parameters c (Å)

14.13

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

2.016

Cell parameters c/b

-

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

90°

Cell parameters γ

120°

Z

12

Volumne (ų)

601.324

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.70(70),
3.43(80),
3.08(100),
2.97(60),
2.80(90),
2.244(60),
1.980(100),
1.892(100)
XRD chart Hypercinnabar

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

2.5

VHN (Hardness Vickers)

52 (25g)

Density (g/cm³)

7.43

7.709 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

USA/Kalifornien (California)/Contra Costa Co./Clayton/Mount Diablo Mine

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Potter & Barnes, 1978

References

American Mineralogist 63 (1978), 1143

Other languages

Spanish

Hipercinabrio

French

Hypercinabre

English

Hypercinnabar

German

Hypercinnabarit

Russian

Гиперциннабарит

Japanese

ﾊｲﾊﾟｰｼﾝﾅﾊﾞｰ

CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 1977-D

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Hcin

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