Frankhawthorneite Cu
2Te
6+O
4(OH)
2 is a
monoclinic
In crystallography, the monoclinic crystal system is one of the seven crystal systems. A crystal system is described by three vectors. In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described by vectors of unequal lengths, as in the orthorhombic s ...
copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...
tellurate
In chemistry tellurate is a compound containing an oxyanion of tellurium where tellurium has an oxidation number of +6. In the naming of inorganic compounds it is a suffix that indicates a polyatomic anion with a central tellurium atom. mineral (space group ''P2
1/n'') named after Prof.
Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born 1946),
University of Manitoba
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,
Canada
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. It was discovered at Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic District, East Tintic Mountains,
Juab County, Utah
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Juab County is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical ...
, in 1995. It has a leaf green
color
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.
See also
*
List of minerals named after people
This is a list of minerals named after people. The chemical composition follows name.
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*Abelsonite: C31H32N4Ni – American physicist Philip Hauge Abelson (1913–2004)alfred
*Abswurmbachite: Cu2+Mn3+6O8SiO4 – German mineralogist I ...
References
Copper(II) minerals
Juab County, Utah
Tellurate and selenate minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14
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