Zaherite is a mineral, a complex

sulfate The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula . Salts, acid derivatives, and peroxides of sulfate are widely used in industry. Sulfates occur widely in everyday life. Sulfates are salts of sulfuric acid and many ...

aluminium Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. I ...

, formula Al₁₂( O H)₂₆( SO₄)₅·20 H₂O. It was discovered in the Salt range,

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M. A. Zaher Mohammed Abduz Zahr ( – 27 August 2017) was a Bangladeshi geologist. He was the director general of Geological Survey of Bangladesh. Biography Zaher described a new mineral in his M.S. Thesis of Michigan Technological University in 1969 that ...

of the Bangladesh Geological Survey after whom it is named in 1977. This mineral would be extremely soluble in water and unlikely to persist anywhere except in the most arid of environments. It spontaneously, and reversibly dehydrates around room temperature. Its color is white to blue-green.

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