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Crystal System

trigonal, P31m

Additional information / Summary

Lizardit kommt in verschiedenen Polytypen vor. Hier wird der trikline Typ beschrieben.

Lizardit-1T (trigonal P31m) Whittaker & Zimmermann, 1956
Lizardite-2H1 (hexagonal P6₃cm) Litsarev et al., 1984
Lizardit-1M (monoklin Cm) Whittaker & Zimmermann, 1956

Weitere Polytypen lt. Strunz Mineralogical Tables 9. Ausgabe

Lizardit-6T1 (trigonal P3) Brindley & v. Knörring 1954
Lizardite-2H2 (hexagonal P6₃) Brigatti u. weitere, 1997

Chemism

Chemical formula

Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄

Chemical composition

Magnesium, Silicium, Sauerstoff, Wasserstoff

Unit weight: 277.112898 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 18

Info

Empirical formula:

Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄

Element	Symbol	Weight%	Atoms	Atoms%	Atom weight (u)	Sum weight (u)
Hydrogen	H	1.45	4	22.22	1.0079470	4.0317880
Oxygen	O	51.96	9	50.00	15.9994300	143.9948700
Magnesium	Mg	26.31	3	16.67	24.3050600	72.9151800
Silicon	Si	20.27	2	11.11	28.0855300	56.1710600

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Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

9.ED.15

9: Silikate (Germanate)
E: Schichtsilikate (Phyllosilikate)
D: Schichtsilikate (Phyllosilikate) mit [Kaolinit]-Schichten, zusammengesetzt aus tetrahedralen oder octahedralen Netzen
15:Serpentin-Gruppe

Classification by Hölzel

9.EM.310

9: SILICATES
E: Phyllosilicates
M: Serpentine-Group
3: Lizardite-Group

Mineral status

Polytype

Variety / polytype of

Lizardite

Optical Data Luminescence

Afterglow (Persistant Luminescence)

keine Daten

Crystallography

Crystal System	trigonal
Class (H-M)	3m
Space Group number	157
Space Group	P31m
Cell parameters a (Å)	5.318
Cell parameters b (Å)	-
Cell parameters c (Å)	14.541
Cell parameters a/b or c/a	2.734
Cell parameters c/b	-
Volume (Å³)	356.141

Crystal Structure 3D

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Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Whittaker & Zussman, 1956

References

American Mineralogist, Volume 72, pages 94i-948, 1987

American Mineralogist 79 (1994) 1194-1198

American Mineralogist 81 (1996) 1111-1116

American Mineralogist 82 (1997) 931-935

The Canadian Mineralogist 36 (1998) 1587-1594

The Canadian Mineralogist 49 (2011) 1045-1054

European Journal of Mineralogy 1 (1989) 13-19

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 33 (2006) 266-275

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