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General Moolooite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: Cu++(C2O4)·n(H2O) (n < 1)
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 160.57 gm
   Copper    39.57 %  Cu   44.56 % Cu2O
   Hydrogen   0.63 %  H     5.61 % H2O
   Carbon    14.96 %  C    44.85 % C2O3
   Oxygen    44.84 %  O
            ______        ______ 
            100.00 %       95.02 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Cu(C2O4)·0.5(H2O)
Help on Environment: Environment: Outcrop of copper sulfide veins.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Approved IMA 1986
Help on Locality: Locality: Bunbury Well, Mooloo Downs, WA, Australia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: Named for the locality.
 

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Moolooite

Comments: Light bluish moolooite encrustation.
Location: Ibergstausee, Stempeda, S?dharz, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.9 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Moolooite Crystallography

Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =0.9502:1:0.4547
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 5.35, b = 5.63, c = 2.56, Z = 1; V = 77.11 Den(Calc)= 3.46
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: OrthorhombicSpace Group: Unk
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 3.88(1), 2.5(0.3), 2.33(0.18),
 

Physical Properties of Moolooite

Help on Color: Color: Blue, Green.
Help on Density: Density: 3.43
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Transparent
Help on Habit: Habit: Microscopic Crystals - Crystals visible only with microscopes.
Help on Luster: Luster: Earthy (Dull)
Help on Streak: Streak: light blue
 

Optical Properties of Moolooite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= -0.797 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
CI calc= -0.781 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2197,KPDmeas= 0.2216,KC= 0.1233
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (?), a=1.57, g=1.95, bire=0.3800
 

Calculated Properties of Moolooite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=3.36 gm/cc
note: rMoolooite =3.46 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.00186
Boson Index = 0.99814
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEMoolooite = 17.33 barns/electron
U=PEMoolooite x relectron= 58.24 barns/cc.

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

Moolooite is Not Radioactive

 

Moolooite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 50.1.6.1 (50)Salts of Organic Acids
  (50.1)(Oxalates)
  (50.1.6)Dana Group
 
50.1.6.1 Moolooite Cu(C2O4)·n(H2O)(n<1) Unk Ortho
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: IX/A.01-90 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 Moolooite Information

Help on References: References: NAME( Dana8) 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 Moolooite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - Crocoite.com Mineral Locations 4 - EUROmin Project 5 -Google Images 6 -Google Scholar 7 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 8 -MinDAT 9 -MinMax(Deutsch) 10 -MinMax(English) 11 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 -École des Mines de Paris

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Moolooite

Cu++(C2O4)·n(H2O) (n < 1)
Dana No: 50.1.6.1 Strunz No: IX/A.01-90
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