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Smithsonite, also
known as zinc spar, is the
mineral form of zinc
carbonate (ZnCO3). Historically,
smithsonite was
identified with
hemimorphite before...
- as
defining calamine,
which would eventually be
renamed after him as "
smithsonite". He was the
founding donor of the
Smithsonian Institution,
which also...
- one ore was
actually two
distinct minerals: Zinc
carbonate ZnCO3 or
smithsonite and Zinc
silicate Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O or hemimorphite.
Although chemically...
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frequently forming botryoidal m****es. It is also a
common form of goethite,
smithsonite, fluorite, and chrysocolla.
Similar habits are
reniform (kidney-shaped)...
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solid that is
insoluble in water. It
exists in
nature as the
mineral smithsonite. It is
prepared by
treating cold
solutions of zinc
sulfate with pot****ium...
- zinc ores and as post mine incrustations. It
occurs ****ociated with
smithsonite, hemimorphite, willemite, cerussite, aurichalcite,
calcite and limonite...
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Shortite Shungite Siderite Sillimanite Simpsonite Sinhalite Smaltite Smithsonite Sodalite Hackmanite (var.)
Sogdianite Sperrylite Spessartite Sphalerite...
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malachite (Cu2(CO3(OH)2),
azurite (Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2), and
cuprite (Cu2O); and
smithsonite (ZnCO3). At the
water table the
environment changes from an oxidizing...
- Fe2+)CO3
Magnesite MgCO3
Otavite CdCO3
Rhodochrosite MnCO3
Siderite FeCO3
Smithsonite ZnCO3
Spherocobaltite CoCO3
Aragonite group:
orthorhombic Aragonite CaCO3...
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manganese commonly substitute for the iron,
resulting in the siderite-
smithsonite, siderite-magnesite, and siderite-rhodochrosite
solid solution series...
