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Colloform – forming from a gel or colloidal mass; encrustations – forms crust-like aggregates on matrix; radial – crystals radiate from a center without producing stellar forms (e.g. stibnite)
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system. It occurs as massive encrustations and as hemimorphic six-sided pyramidal crystals which vary in color from a honey yellow through shades of red to brown. The
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395:(CdS) in crystalline form. Greenockite crystallizes in the
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181:Honey yellow, citron yellow, orange yellow
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488:"IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols"
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138:c = 6.713 ; Z = 2
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642:This article about a specific
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282:Nearly opaque to translucent
102:Dihexagonal pyramidal (6mm)
717:Minerals in space group 186
410:Greenockite belongs to the
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535:Handbook of Mineralogy
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463:rechargeable batteries
262:Adamantine to resinous
727:Sulfide mineral stubs
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572:"Glasgow museum site"
383:(obsolete) is a rare
356:Other characteristics
76:Strunz classification
615:at Wikimedia Commons
403:is 3 to 3.5 and the
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504:2021MinM...85..291W
486:Warr, L.N. (2021).
712:Hexagonal minerals
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344:Ultraviolet
334:Pleochroism
278:Diaphaneity
201:Rare on {11
116:Space group
19:Greenockite
691:Categories
582:2005-08-02
560:Webmineral
473:References
416:sphalerite
364:References
245:Mohs scale
229:Conchoidal
136:a = 4.136
107:H-M symbol
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435:Bishopton
397:hexagonal
328:δ = 0.023
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143:Structure
132:Unit cell
91:Hexagonal
439:Scotland
412:wurtzite
248:hardness
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722:Blendes
500:Bibcode
385:cadmium
375:, also
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239:Brittle
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