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| System: | Tetragonal | Colour: | Black | |||||
| Lustre: | Vitreous | Hardness: | 3½ | |||||
| Name: | Named for Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), American architect and visionary. Invented the geodesic dome which illustrates the molecular morphology of fullerenes. | |||||||
Apparently a fullerene with a C60 composition. Originally described from Shun'ga area, Shun'ga village, Onega lake, Karelia Republic, Northern Region, Russia and Tuvish basaltoid pipe, Gissar Range, Viloyati Sogd (Viloyati Sughd; Viloyati Khodzhent; Viloyati Leninabad), Tajikistan. | ||||||||
Classification of Fullerite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| IMA status: | Published without Approval | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) edition ID: | 1.CB.05c 1 : ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides) C : Metalloids and Nonmetals B : Carbon-silicon family | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dana 7th edition ID: | 1.3.5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| mindat.org URL: | http://www.mindat.org/min-6959.html Please feel free to link to this page. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Properties of Fullerite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lustre: | Vitreous | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Colour: | Black | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Streak: | Black | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hardness (Mohs): | 3½ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Crystallography of Fullerite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Crystal System: | Tetragonal | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chemical Properties of Fullerite | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Essential elements: | C | ||||||||||||||||||||
| All elements listed in formula: | C | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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