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Definition of Atacamite

Atacamite
Atacamite A*tac"a*mite, n. [From the desert of Atacama, where found.] (Min.) An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

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- Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3. It was first described for deposits in the Atacama Desert...
- minerals in four polymorphic crystal forms: atacamite, paratacamite, clinoatacamite, and botallackite. Atacamite is orthorhombic, paratacamite is rhombohedral...
- Botallack Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. It is polymorphous with atacamite, paratacamite and clinoatacamite [Wikidata]. Botallackite crystallises...
- Antigorite Bowenite Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Arfvedsonite Astrophyllite Atacamite Austinite Axinite group: Ferroaxinite Magnesioaxinite Manganaxinite Tinzenite...
- atacamite. It is found in Chile, Botallack Mine in Cornwall, Broken Hill, Australia, and in Italy in Capo Calamita on the island of Elba. Atacamite "Paratacamite:...
- the metal in the form of a copper-based chloride biomineral, known as atacamite, in crystalline form. It is theorized that this copper is used as a catalyst...
- copper and copper-chlorine resinate; the crystalline material might be atacamite or another copper-chlorine compound. Analysis of the red-brown paint indicated...
- Arthurite Artinite Artroeite Ashburtonite Ashoverite Asisite Astrophyllite Atacamite Athabascaite Atheneite Aubertite Augelite Augite Aurichalcite Auricupride...
- water-insoluble. It occurs ****ociated with native silver, cerussite, iodargyrite, atacamite, malachite, jarosite and various iron–manganese oxides. It was first described...
- minerals may also have polyatomic anions. Examples include the following: Atacamite Cu2Cl(OH)3 Avogadrite (K,Cs)BF Bararite (β)(NH4)2SiF6 Bischofite (MgCl2·6H2O)...
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