Gananite
Gananite (simplified Chinese: 赣南矿; traditional Chinese: 贛南礦; pinyin: gànnánkuàng) is a rare bismuth fluoride mineral form of bismuth trifluoride with a general formula of BiF3. Gananite is an isotropic mineral, it belongs to the space group P43m. This means that gananite does not show any colors in cross polarized light, because when polarized light passes through it, it does not split into two perpendicular rays. In other words, because gananite is an isometric mineral, it does not exhibit double refraction. Moreover, this tells us that this mineral is not birefringent. Its color in plane-polarized light is blackish-brown, and it does not show pleochroism.
| Gananite | |
|---|---|
| General | |
| Category | Halide mineral |
| Formula (repeating unit) | BiF3 |
| IMA symbol | Gan |
| Strunz classification | 3.AC.20 |
| Crystal system | Cubic |
| Crystal class | Hextetrahedral (43m) H-M symbol: (4 3m) |
| Space group | P43m |
| Identification | |
| Color | Brown to black, greenish black |
| Crystal habit | Aggregates |
| Fracture | Uneven |
| Tenacity | Brittle |
| Mohs scale hardness | 3.5 |
| Luster | Resinous to semimetallic |
| Streak | Dark grey |
| Diaphaneity | Subtranslucent to Opaque |
| Specific gravity | 8.928 calculated |
| Optical properties | Isotropic |
| Birefringence | N/A |
| Pleochroism | Non-Pleochroic |
| References | |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.