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Atacamite: Occurrence & Overview

Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3. It was first described from deposits in the Atacama Desert of Chile in 1802 by Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn. The Atacama Desert is also the namesake of the mineral.

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Atacamite topic overview

The analysis highlights Occurrence and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Atacamite.

Related topics
38
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
40
Extracted relationships
55
Concept neighborhoods
12
Bridge connections
40

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Occurrence · 33 topics
Overview · 5 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

2V angle
Calculated: 74°
Birefringence
δ = 0.049
Category
Halide mineral
Cleavage
Perfect on {010}, fair on {101}
Color
Bright green, dark emerald-green to blackish green
Crystal class
Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

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Overview

Occurrence

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Atacamite connects Entity context

The extracted context around Atacamite shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Atacamite → Arizona, Australia, Chile, China, Czech Republic, It, Russia, The Another extracted example is Atacamite → Chile, ChileAtacamite, Gunson, Harvard Museum, Mt, Natural HistoryAtacamite, South Australia. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Atacamite

Top relations

related to Occurrence · 8
Atacamite → Arizona, Australia, Chile, China, Czech Republic, It, Russia, The
related to Biomineral · 7
Atacamite → Chile, ChileAtacamite, Gunson, Harvard Museum, Mt, Natural HistoryAtacamite, South Australia
related to Synthetic occurrence · 7
Atacamite → Antikythera, Eurasia, Liberty, Persia, Russia, Statue, The
related to External links · 6
Atacamite → Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery, Archived, October, Retrieved, September, The
is a · 2
Atacamite → comparatively rare mineral, copper halide mineral
2V angle · 1
Atacamite → Calculated: 74°
Birefringence · 1
Atacamite → δ = 0.049
Category · 1
Atacamite → Halide mineral
Cleavage · 1
Atacamite → Perfect on {010}, fair on {101}
Color · 1
Atacamite → Bright green, dark emerald-green to blackish green

Important terminology

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Important terminology

mineral copper australia deposits chile also atacama desert halide formula cu2cl oh references biomineral russia bronze mt gunson south alteration

Atacamite relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 55 structured relationships around Atacamite. Examples in this analysis include Atacamite → 2V angle → Calculated: 74° and Atacamite → Birefringence → δ = 0.049. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Atacamite2V angleCalculated: 74°1.00infobox
AtacamiteBirefringenceδ = 0.0491.00infobox
AtacamiteCategoryHalide mineral1.00infobox
AtacamiteCleavagePerfect on {010}, fair on {101}1.00infobox
AtacamiteColorBright green, dark emerald-green to blackish green1.00infobox
AtacamiteCrystal classDipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)1.00infobox
AtacamiteCrystal habitSlender prismatic crystals, fibrous, granular to compact, massive1.00infobox
AtacamiteCrystal systemOrthorhombic1.00infobox
AtacamiteDiaphaneityTransparent to translucent1.00infobox
AtacamiteDispersionr < v, strong1.00infobox
AtacamiteFormulaCu2Cl(OH)31.00infobox
AtacamiteFractureConchoidal1.00infobox
AtacamiteIMA symbolAta1.00infobox
AtacamiteLusterAdamantine to vitreous1.00infobox
AtacamiteMohs scale hardness3–3.51.00infobox
AtacamiteOptical propertiesBiaxial (−)1.00infobox
AtacamitePleochroismX = pale green; Y = yellow-green; Z = grass-green1.00infobox
AtacamiteRefractive indexnα = 1.831 nβ = 1.861 nγ = 1.8801.00infobox
AtacamiteSpace groupPnma1.00infobox
AtacamiteSpecific gravity3.745–3.7761.00infobox
AtacamiteStreakApple green1.00infobox
AtacamiteStrunz classification3.DA.10a1.00infobox
AtacamiteTenacityBrittle1.00infobox
AtacamiteTwinningContact and penetration with complex twinned groupings1.00infobox
AtacamiteUnit cella = 6.03, b = 9.12 c = 6.865 [Å]; Z = 41.00infobox
Atacamiteis acopper halide mineral0.90text
Atacamiteis acomparatively rare mineral0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Atacamite bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Mineral, Copper and Biomineral. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Atacamite
    • Mineral
    • Copper
    • Biomineral
    • Bronze
    • Cu2cl
    • Formula
    • Gunson
    • Halide
    • Mt
    • Oh
    • References
    • South
  • atacamite
    • Mineral
    • Copper
    • Biomineral
    • Bronze
    • Cu2cl
    • Formula
    • Gunson
    • Halide
    • Mt
    • Oh
    • References
    • South
  • halide mineral
    • Cu2cl
    • Formula
    • Oh
    • Hydroxide
    • Ii
    • Australia
    • Gunson
    • References
    • South
    • Found
    • Mineral
    • Russia
  • copper(ii) chloride hydroxide
    • Hydroxide
    • Ii
    • Cu2cl
    • Formula
    • Halide
    • Oh
    • Mineral
    • Chloride
    • Copper
    • Alteration
    • Bronze
    • Discovered
  • copper
    • Mineral
    • Chloride
    • Hydroxide
    • Ii
    • Alteration
    • Bronze
    • Cu2cl
    • Discovered
    • Formula
    • Found
    • Halide
    • Oh
  • australia
    • Gunson
    • South
    • Mineral
    • Cu2cl
    • Formula
    • Found
    • Halide
    • Oh
    • References
    • Russia
    • Chile
    • Deposits
  • atacama desert
    • Desert
    • Alekseyevich
    • Described
    • Dmitri
    • First
    • Golitsyn
    • Namesake
    • Also
    • Chile
    • Deposits
    • Mineral
  • dmitri alekseyevich golitsyn
    • Alekseyevich
    • Described
    • Dmitri
    • First
    • Golitsyn
    • Atacama
    • Desert
    • Chile
    • Deposits

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Atacamite, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Atacamite with Occurrence. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
AtacamiteOccurrence · splits 7 ⟂ 34
AtacamiteOverview · splits 35 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Atacamite

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples55
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Atacamite to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Occurrence & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Atacamite · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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