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Smaltite
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Hesse, Germany
© 2000 John H. Betts
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| Name: | Derived from smalt, a blue glass-coloring agent containing cobalt. | |||||||
A variety of Skutterudite
Arsenic-deficient variety of skutterudite; also used as a synonym for skutterudite.
Arsenic-deficient variety of skutterudite; also used as a synonym for skutterudite.
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Chemical Properties of Smaltite | |||||||||||
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| Essential elements: | As, Co | ||||||||||
| All elements listed in formula: | As, Co, Fe, Ni | ||||||||||
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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 Smaltite | |||||||||||
| Reference List: - + | Hausmann (1813): 155 (as speiskobalt). Beudant (1852): 2: 584. 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: 342-347. | ||||||||||
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