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Lucabindiite

lucabindiite

K(As2O3)2Cl

Lucabindiite: Mineral information, data and localities.

Lucabindiite: Mineral information, data and localities. — via www.mindat.org · Source

Overview

Lucabindiite is a mineral discovered in 1998 from the La Fossa crater at Vulcano, the Aeolian islands off the coast of Italy. It has the chemical formula (K,NH4)As4O6(Cl,Br) and is hexagonal. After months of collecting sublimates and encrustations, the researchers discovered lucabindiite which was found on the surface of pyroclastic breccia. The mineral is named after Luca Bindi, who was a professor of mineralogy and former head of the Division of Mineralogy of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence.

Scientific references

  1. Lucabindiite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19860961 Link
  2. Lucabindiite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucabindiite Link