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Xanthochroite
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| System: | Amorphous | Colour: | yellow | |
| Lustre: | Vitreous | |||
Designation for X-ray amorphous CdS (Rogers, 1917).
The name originally applied to earthy material that X-rayed as greenockite (Dana 7, vol 1, p. 230).
Classification of Xanthochroite | ||||||
| IMA status: | Not Approved | |||||
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Physical Properties of Xanthochroite | ||||||
| Lustre: | Vitreous | |||||
| Colour: | yellow | |||||
Crystallography of Xanthochroite | ||||||
| Crystal System: | Amorphous | |||||
Chemical Properties of Xanthochroite | ||||||
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| Essential elements: | Cd, S | |||||
| All elements listed in formula: | Cd, S | |||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |||||
References for Xanthochroite | ||||||
| Reference List: - + | Rogers, A. P. (1917): A review of the Amorphous minerals. Journal of Geology 25, 515-541. [first use of name] Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 230. | |||||
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