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Browneite

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Collectors Summary

Crystal System kubisch, F43m

Chemism

Chemical formula

MnS

Additional chem. information

Sphalerit-Gruppe

Chemical composition

Mangan, Schwefel

Unit weight: 87.0035499 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 2

Info

Empirical formula:

MnS

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Sulfur

S

36.86

1

50.00

32.0655000

32.0655000
Manganese

Mn

63.14

1

50.00

54.9380499

54.9380499

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

2.CB.05a

2: Sulfide und Sulfosalze (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide, Sulfoarsenide, Sulfoantimonide, Sulfobismuthide)
C: Metallsulfide, M : S = 1 : 1 (und ähnliche)
B: mit Zink (Zn), Eisen (Fe), Kupfer (Cu), Silber (Ag), usw.
05a:

Lapis Classification

II/C.01-015

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

Classification by Hölzel

2.CB.108

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
1: Sphalerite-Group

IMA status

anerkannt - April 2012 - CNMNC Newsletter No. 13, June 2012, page 808; Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 807-817

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Crystallography

Crystal System

kubisch

Class (H-M)

43m

Space Group number

216

Space Group

F43m

Cell parameters a (Å)

5.601

Cell parameters b (Å)

-

Cell parameters c (Å)

-

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

1

Cell parameters c/b

-

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

90°

Cell parameters γ

90°

Z

4

Volume (ų)

175.71

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.234(100), 1.980(63), 1.689(39), 1.400(9), 1.285(14), 1.143(19), 0.947(14), 0.886(14)
XRD chart Browneite

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

Crystal Structure 3D

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Physical Properties

Density (g/cm³)

3.289 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Polen/Lublin (Lubelskie), Woiwodschaft/Zamość (Zamosc)/Zaklodzie Meteorit

Type material

Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA

Collection number of type material

USNM 7607

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Chi Ma, John R. Beckett, George R. Rossman (2012)

References

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~chima/

CNMNC Newsletter No. 13, June 2012, page 808; Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 807-817.

Chi Ma, John R. Beckett, George R. Rossman: Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zaklodzie meteorite. American Mineralogist Vol. 97, Nr. 11-12 (2012) S. 2056-2059.

Other languages

German

Browneit

English

Browneite

Russian

Браунеит

Simplified Chinese

闪锰矿

CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 2012-008

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Bw

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) _U3p_bZwB0WOiWv9ZEly6g
GUID (Global unique identifier) FDE94DFD-70B6-4507-8E89-6BFD644972EA
Database ID 7369