Zincosite Mineral Data


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General Zincosite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: ZnSO4
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 161.45 gm
   Zinc    40.50 %  Zn   50.41 % ZnO
   Sulfur  19.86 %  S    49.59 % SO3
   Oxygen  39.64 %  O
          ______        ______ 
          100.00 %      100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Zn(SO4)
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Not Approved IMA
Help on Locality: Locality: Barranco-Jarosa mine, Aquilas, Murcia, Sierra Almagrera, Spain. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: Zinkosite
 

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Zincosite Crystallography

Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: OrthorhombicSpace Group: Unk
 

Physical Properties of Zincosite

Help on Color: Color: White, Wine yellow.
Help on Density: Density: 4.33
 

Optical Properties of Zincosite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= 0.082 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
KPDmeas= 0.1537,KC= 0.1674
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (-), a=1.658, b=1.669, g=1.67, bire=0.0120, 2V(Calc)=32, 2V(Meas)=25.
 

Calculated Properties of Zincosite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=4.18 gm/cc
note: rZincosite =4.33 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.01828
Boson Index = 0.98172
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEZincosite = 21.27 barns/electron
U=PEZincosite x relectron= 89.00 barns/cc.

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

Zincosite is Not Radioactive

 

Zincosite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 28.0.0.0 (28)Sulfate Minerals
  (28.0)Without Dana Classification Numbers
  (Sulfate)
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: VI/A.01-20 VI - Sulfates,Chromates,Molybdates and Tungstates
  VI/A - Waterfree sulfates [SO4]2- without unfamiliar anions. cations of medium size
  VI/A.01 - Chalcocyanite - Zincocite ? series
 
VI/A.01-10 Chalcocyanite CuSO4 Pmnb 2/m 2/m 2/m
 
VI/A.01-20 Zincosite ZnSO4 Unk Ortho
 

Other Zincosite Information

Help on References: References: PHYS. PROP.(Dana's Sys. of Min.,7th ed.,Vol.2,1951) OPTIC PROP.(Dana's Sys. of Min.,7th ed.,Vol.2,)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Zincosite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - EUROmin Project 4 -Google Images 5 -Google Scholar 6 -MinDAT 7 -MinMax(Deutsch) 8 -MinMax(English) 9 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 10 -QUT Mineral Atlas 11 - WWW-MINCRYST

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ZnSO4
Dana No: Unknown Strunz No: VI/A.01-20
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