Edingtonite

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Edingtonite from Brazil
Edingtonite from Brazil

Edingtonite is a white, gray, brown, colorless, pink or yellow mineral. Its chemical formula is BaAl2Si3O10·4H2O. It has varieties with tetragonal, orthorhombic or triclinic crystals.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: "Dana's new mineralogy", pp. 1683-1684. John Wiley & Sons, 1997