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Pyromorphite

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LXXXVII. Chemische Untersuchung der phosphorsauren Bleierze: I. Zeisiggrünes Bleierz von Zschopau. (87. Chemical investigation of the lead ores [containing] phosphoric acid: I. Siskin-green lead ore from Zschopau) in: Klaproth, Martin Heinrich,
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Dark green to grass-green or green, yellow, yellow-orange, reddish orange, yellow-brown, greenish-yellow or yellowish-green, shades of brown, tan, grayish, white and may be colorless; colourless or faintly tinted in transmitted
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Cl), the resemblance in external characters is so close that, as a rule, it is only possible to distinguish between them by chemical tests. They were formerly confused under the names green lead ore and brown lead ore
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isomorphously replacing lead are lower in density (specific gravity 5.9 - 6.5) and usually lighter in color; they bear the names polysphaerite (because of the globular form), miesite from
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Young Joon Rheea; Stephen Hillier; Helen Pendlowskic; Geoffrey Michael Gadd (October 2014). "Fungal transformation of metallic lead to pyromorphite in liquid medium".
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The color of the mineral is usually some bright shade of green, yellow or brown, and the
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Fine crystals of pyromorphite from Daoping Mine, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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Green pyromorphite microcrystals cover the vuggy, quartz-rich matrix. Seams of tiny
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Details of Klaproth's chemical analysis of pyromorphite appear in: Klaproth (1785)
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there may be a gradual passage from pyromorphite to mimetite. Varieties containing
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Green pyromorphite crystals densely carpet the display side of the large matrix
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A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals Including Their History and Etymology
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Miniature of sharp, lustrous, apple green color crystal "sprays" on matrix
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Von dem Wassereisen, als einem mit Phosphorsäure verbundenen Eisenkalke
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are common, and have the form of a hexagonal prism terminated by the
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On hydrosiderum as a calcined iron bonded with phosphoric acid),
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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collected from a lead-polluted soil that is able to form
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The phosphate was first distinguished chemically by
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Prismatic to acicular crystals, globular to reniform
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Index


Phosphate mineral
Apatite
Formula
IMA symbol
Strunz classification
Crystal system
Hexagonal
Crystal class
H-M symbol
Space group
Crystal habit
Twinning
Cleavage
Fracture
Tenacity
Mohs scale
Luster
Streak
Diaphaneity
Specific gravity
Refractive index
Birefringence
Pleochroism
Ultraviolet
fluorescence
mineral
lead
Pb
P

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