Onoratoite Mineral Data

Onoratoite Mineral Data
Search Webmineral :
   
Home Crystal jmol jPOWD Chem X Ray Dana Strunz Properties A to Z Images Share
      News Help About

Advertisment
Excalibur Mineral Corp. 1885 Seminole Trail - Suite 202 Charlottesville, VA 22901-1160 USA

General Onoratoite Information

Help on Chemical Formula: Chemical Formula: Sb8O11Cl2
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 1,220.90 gm
   Antimony  79.78 %  Sb   95.50 % Sb2O3
   Chlorine   5.81 %  Cl    5.81 % Cl
               -   %   Cl   -1.31 % -O=Cl2   
   Oxygen    14.42 %  O
            ______        ______ 
            100.00 %      100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Sb8O11Cl2
Help on Environment: Environment: Alteration product of stibnite.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Approved IMA 1968
Help on Locality: Locality: Cetine di Cotorniano mine, Rosia, Siena, Toscana (Tuscany), Italy Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: Named for Ettore Onorato (1899-1971), Italian mineralogist, University of Rome, Italy.
Help on Name Pronunciation: Name Pronunciation: Onoratoite + Pronunciation Say ONORATOITE
Help on Synonym: Synonym: ICSD 49593
  PDF 21-52
 

Onoratoite Image

Click Here for Larger Onoratoite Image in a New Browser Window Images:
Click Here for Larger Onoratoite Image

Onoratoite

Comments: White crystals of onoratoite with a yellow crystal of sulphur.
Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine (Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Onoratoite Crystallography
Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =4.6994:1:2.5457
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 19.047, b = 4.053, c = 10.318, Z = 2; beta = 110.25° V = 747.29 Den(Calc)= 5.43
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: C 2/m
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 3.19(1), 4.39(0.65), 2.677(0.6),
Click Here for Large Onoratoite Structure Window Crystal Structure:

Mouse
drag1 - LMB Manipulate Structure
drag2 - RMB Resize/Rotate
Keyboard
S - Stereo Pair on/off
H - Help Screen
I - Data Info
A - Atoms On/Off
P - Polyhedra On/Off
B - Bonds On/Off
 Help on Above


Menchetti S , Sabelli C , Trosti-Ferroni R , Acta Crystallographica, Section C , 40 (1984) p.1506-1510, The structures of onoratoite, Sb8O11Cl2 and Sb8O11Cl2*6H2O, Locality: synthetic, Note: anisoB s from ICSD, corrected

 

Physical Properties of Onoratoite

Help on Color: Color: White.
Help on Density: Density: 5.3
Help on Habit: Habit: Acicular - Occurs as needle-like crystals.
Help on Habit: Habit: Bladed - Aggregates of thin lath-like crystals (e.g. kyanite).
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 3 - Calcite
Help on Streak: Streak: white
 

Optical Properties of Onoratoite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= -0.089 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
CI calc= -0.063 (Fair) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2256,KPDmeas= 0.2311,KC= 0.2122
Ncalc = 2.12 - 2.15
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (-), b=2.18-2.23, g=2.23-2.26,
 

Calculated Properties of Onoratoite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density: Bulk Density (Electron Density)=4.71 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Onoratoite =5.43 gm/cc.
Help on Fermion Index: Fermion Index: Fermion Index = 0.0000691923
Boson Index = 0.9999308077
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric: PEOnoratoite = 270.64 barns/electron
U=PEOnoratoite x rElectron Density=1,275.89 barns/cc.
Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Onoratoite is Not Radioactive
 

Onoratoite Classification
Help on Dana Class: Dana Class: 10.05.07.01 (10)Oxyhalides and Hydroxyhalides
  (10.05)where Am (O,OH)p Xq
  (10.05.07)Dana Group
 
10.05.07.01 Onoratoite Sb8O11Cl2 C 2/m 2/m
Help on Strunz Class: Strunz Class: 03.DC.80 03 - HALIDES
  03.D - Oxyhalides, Hydroxyhalides and Related Double Halides
  03.DC -With Pb (As,Sb,Bi), without Cu
 
03.DC.80 Onoratoite Sb8O11Cl2 C 2/m 2/m
 

Other Onoratoite Information
Help on References: References: NAME( Dana8) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(Dana8)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Onoratoite :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Athena
3 - EUROmin Project
4 - Ecole des Mines de Paris
5 - GeoScienceWorld
6 - Google Images
7 - Google Scholar
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
9 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
10 - MinDAT
11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
12 - Online Mineral Museum
13 - QUT Mineral Atlas
14 - Ruff.Info
15 - WWW-MINCRYST

Search for Onoratoite using:

Google
 
Web webmineral.com
[AOL] [Bing] [Dog Pile] [GeoScienceWorld] [HotBot] [Ixquick] [Lycos] [MAMMA] [Scirus] [Teoma] [WebCrawler] [Wikipedia] [YAHOO]

Visit our Advertisers for Onoratoite :

A Bijoux Google Search for Onoratoite
Adam's Minerals Google Search for Onoratoite
Cape Minerals Google Search for Onoratoite
Dakota Matrix Minerals Google Search for Onoratoite
Excalibur Mineral Corp. Google Search for Onoratoite
Exceptional Minerals Google Search for Onoratoite
John Betts Fine Minerals Search for Onoratoite
McDougall Minerals Google Search for Onoratoite
Mineral News Website Link
Rock and Mineral Shows Google Search for Onoratoite
Weinrich Minerals, Inc. Google Search for Onoratoite

Ask about Onoratoite here :
Ask-A-Mineralogist from the Mineralogical Society of America
Mindat.org's Discussion Groups
Original Rockhounds Discussion Group
Rockhounds Discussion Group on Yahoo Groups
Mineral Discussion Forum from Fabre Minerals - also available in Espaņol

Print or Cut-and-Paste your Onoratoite Specimen Label here :

Onoratoite

Sb8O11Cl2
Dana No: 10.05.07.01 Strunz No: 03.DC.80
Locality:

 

Notes: