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Phenakite or phenacite is a fairly rare nesosilicate mineral consisting of beryllium orthosilicate, Be2SiO4. Occasionally used as a gemstone, phenakite occurs as isolated crystals, which are rhombohedral with parallel-faced hemihedrism, and are either lenticular or prismatic in habit: the lenticular habit is determined by the development of faces of…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phenakite | Birefringence | δ = 0.017 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Category | Nesosilicate | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Cleavage | Distinct on {1120}, imperfect on {1011} | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Color | Colorless, yellow, pink, brown | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Crystal class | Rhombohedral (3) H-M symbol: (3) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Crystal habit | Tabular, prismatic to acicular crystals often as columnar aggregates, as spherulites and granular | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Crystal system | Trigonal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Diaphaneity | Transparent to translucent | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Formula | Be2SiO4 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Fracture | Conchoidal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | IMA symbol | Phk | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Luster | Vitreous | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Mohs scale hardness | 7.5–8 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Optical properties | Uniaxial (+) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Other characteristics | Bright blue cathodoluminescence | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Refractive index | nω = 1.650 – 1.656 nε = 1.667 – 1.670 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Space group | R3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Specific gravity | 2.93–3.00 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Strunz classification | 9.AA.05 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Tenacity | Brittle | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Twinning | Penetration twins around {0001} | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phenakite | Unit cell | a = 12.438 Å, c = 8.231 Å; Z = 18 | 1.00 | infobox |
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