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General Glushinskite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: Mg(C2O4)·2(H2O)
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 148.36 gm
   Magnesium  16.38 %  Mg   27.17 % MgO
   Hydrogen    2.72 %  H    24.29 % H2O
   Carbon     16.19 %  C    48.55 % C2O3
   Oxygen     64.71 %  O
             ______        ______ 
             100.00 %      100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Mg(C2O4)·2(H2O)
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Approved IMA 1987
Help on Locality: Locality: Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: Magnesium Oxalate
 

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Glushinskite

Comments: White coatings of glushinskite on dirty, tan gypsum.
Location: San Simon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

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Glushinskite

Comments: SEM photo of two large euhedral glushinskite crystals partially embedded in the dried, rotten saguaro matrix. (AmMin, 88:1883).
Location: Crystals associated with the remains of a saguaro, Carnegiea gigantea from south and west central Arizona. Scale: Scale bar 150 µ-m.
© American Mineralogist

Glushinskite Crystallography

Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =2.3446:1:1.8468
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 12.675, b = 5.406, c = 9.984, Z = 4; beta = 129.45° V = 528.26 Den(Calc)= 1.87
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: C 2/c
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 4.89(1), 3.179(0.7), 2.039(0.6),
 

Physical Properties of Glushinskite

Help on Color: Color: White, White, Colorless.
Help on Density: Density: 1.85
Help on Streak: Streak: white
 

Optical Properties of Glushinskite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= -0.961 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
CI calc= -0.94 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2656,KPDmeas= 0.2685,KC= 0.1369
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (-), a=1.365, b=1.53, g=1.595, bire=0.2300
 

Calculated Properties of Glushinskite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=1.92 gm/cc
note: rGlushinskite =1.87 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.01847
Boson Index = 0.98153
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEGlushinskite = 0.61 barns/electron
U=PEGlushinskite x relectron= 1.17 barns/cc.

Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Glushinskite is Not Radioactive

 

Glushinskite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 50.1.3.2 (50)Salts of Organic Acids
  (50.1)(Oxalates)
  (50.1.3)Dana Group
 
50.1.3.1 Humboldtine Fe(C2O4)·2(H2O) I2/a 2/m
 
50.1.3.2 Glushinskite Mg(C2O4)·2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
 
50.1.3.3 Lindbergite! Mn(C2O4)·2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: IX/A.01-40 IX - Organic compunds
  IX/A - Oxalates. Salts from organic acids. [C2O4]2- arranged after increasing cation size
  IX/A.01 - Whewellite - Wheatleyite series
 
IX/A.01-05 Natroxalate! Na2C2O4 P 21/a 2/m
 
IX/A.01-10 Whewellite Ca(C2O4)·(H2O) P 21/n 2/m
 
IX/A.01-20 Weddellite Ca(C2O4)·2(H2O) I 4/m 4/m
 
IX/A.01-25 Caoxite! Ca(C2O4)·3(H2O) P1 1
 
IX/A.01-28 Novgorodovaite! Ca2(C2O4)Cl2·2(H2O) I2/m 2/m
 
IX/A.01-30 Oxammite (NH4)2(C2O4)·(H2O) P 21212 2 2 2
 
IX/A.01-40 Glushinskite Mg(C2O4)·2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
 
IX/A.01-50 Humboldtine Fe(C2O4)·2(H2O) I2/a 2/m
 
IX/A.01-55 Lindbergite! Mn(C2O4)·2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
 
IX/A.01-60 Minguzzite K3Fe(C2O4)3·3(H2O) P 21/c 2/m
 
IX/A.01-70 Zhemchuzhnikovite NaMg(Al,Fe)(C2O4)3·8(H2O) Unk Trig
 
IX/A.01-80 Stepanovite NaMgFe(C2O4)3·8-9(H2O) Unk Trig
 
IX/A.01-90 Moolooite Cu(C2O4)·n(H2O)(n<1) Unk Ortho
 
IX/A.01-100 Wheatleyite Na2Cu(C2O4)2·2(H2O) P1 1
 
IX/A.01-110 Coskrenite-(Ce)! (Ce,Nd,La)2(SO4)2(C2O4)·8(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
 
IX/A.01-120 Levinsonite-(Y)! (Y,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)·12(H2O) P 2/n 2/m
 
IX/A.01-130 Zugshunstite-(Ce)! (Ce,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)·8(H2O) C 2/c 2/m
 

Other Glushinskite Information

Help on References: References: PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Glushinskite :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Athena
3 - EUROmin Project
4 - Ecole des Mines de Paris
5 - Google Images
6 - Google Scholar
7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
9 - MinDAT
10 - MinMax(Deutsch)
11 - MinMax(English)
12 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
13 - QUT Mineral Atlas
14 - Ruff.Info

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Glushinskite

Mg(C2O4)·2(H2O)
Dana No: 50.1.3.2 Strunz No: IX/A.01-40
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