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Anhydrite

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Anhydrite is a mineral—anhydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4. [1]

55 relations: Abraham Gottlob Werner, Barium, Baryte, Bassanite, Bergamo, Calcite, Calcium, Calcium sulfate, Caprock, Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, Celestine (mineral), Chalcopyrite, Cleavage (crystal), Costa Volpino, Crystal, Depression (geology), Diagenesis, Diorite, El Chichón, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Evaporite, Galena, Gypsum, Halite, Hall in Tirol, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Hydrogen sulfide, Igneous rock, Intrusive rock, Isomorphism (crystallography), Lombardy, Lustre (mineralogy), Mohs scale of mineral hardness, Molybdenite, Mudflat, Nodule (geology), Orthorhombic crystal system, Persian Gulf, Peru, Pluton, Potassium chloride, Pumice, Pyrite, Sabkha, Salt dome, Sodium, Solution, Specific gravity, Strontium, Sulfate, ..., Sulfate minerals, Sulfide, Symmetry, Trachyandesite, Widnes. Expand index (5 more) »

Abraham Gottlob Werner

Abraham Gottlob Werner (25 September 174930 June 1817) was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism.

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Barium

Barium is a chemical element with symbol Ba and atomic number 56.

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Baryte

Baryte or barite (BaSO4) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate.

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Bassanite

Bassanite is a calcium sulfate mineral with formula CaSO4·0.5(H2O) or 2CaSO4·H2O.

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Bergamo

Bergamo (Italian:; Bèrghem; from Latin Bergomum) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the Alpine lakes Como and Iseo.

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Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Calcium sulfate

Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates.

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Caprock

Caprock or cap rock is a harder or more resistant rock type overlying a weaker or less resistant rock type.

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Catalyst Science Discovery Centre

The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre (originally The Museum of the Chemical Industry) is a science centre and museum, focusing on chemistry and the history of the chemical industry, next to Spike Island and the River Mersey in Widnes, Cheshire.

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Celestine (mineral)

Celestine or celestite is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate (SrSO4).

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Chalcopyrite

Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system.

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Cleavage (crystal)

Cleavage, in mineralogy, is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes.

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Costa Volpino

Costa Volpino is a comune in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Depression (geology)

A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Diagenesis

Diagenesis is the change of sediments or existing sedimentary rocks into a different sedimentary rock during and after rock formation (lithification), at temperatures and pressures less than that required for the formation of metamorphic rocks.

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Diorite

Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock composed principally of the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), biotite, hornblende, and/or pyroxene.

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El Chichón

El Chichón, also known as Chichonal, is an active volcano in Francisco León, north-western Chiapas, Mexico.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Evaporite

Evaporite is the term for a water-soluble mineral sediment that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution.

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Galena

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.

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Halite

Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Hall in Tirol

Hall in Tyrol is a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria.

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Hermann–Mauguin notation

In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.

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Hydrogen sulfide

Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the chemical formula H2S.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

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Isomorphism (crystallography)

In crystallography crystals are described as isomorphous if they are closely similar in shape.

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Lombardy

Lombardy (Lombardia; Lumbardia, pronounced: (Western Lombard), (Eastern Lombard)) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of.

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Lustre (mineralogy)

Lustre or luster is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.

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Mohs scale of mineral hardness

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale characterizing scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

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Molybdenite

Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, MoS2.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats, are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers.

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Nodule (geology)

In sedimentology and geology, a nodule is small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock.

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Orthorhombic crystal system

In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Pluton

In geology, a pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

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Potassium chloride

Potassium chloride (KCl) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine.

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Pumice

Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of highly vesicular rough textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).

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Sabkha

Sabkha (Arabic: سبخة) is a phonetic translation of the Arabic word used to describe any form of salt flat.

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Salt dome

A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element with symbol Na (from Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Solution

In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.

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Specific gravity

Specific gravity is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a reference substance; equivalently, it is the ratio of the mass of a substance to the mass of a reference substance for the same given volume.

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Strontium

Strontium is the chemical element with symbol Sr and atomic number 38.

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Sulfate

The sulfate or sulphate (see spelling differences) ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.

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Sulfate minerals

The sulfate minerals are a class of minerals that include the sulfate ion (SO42−) within their structure.

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Sulfide

Sulfide (systematically named sulfanediide, and sulfide(2−)) (British English sulphide) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions.

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Symmetry

Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

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Trachyandesite

Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite.

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Widnes

Widnes is an industrial town in Halton, Cheshire, Northwest England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhydrite

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