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Cerussite

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Cerussite (also known as lead carbonate or white lead ore) is a mineral consisting of lead carbonate (PbCO3), and an important ore of lead. [1]

39 relations: Acicular (crystal habit), Aragonite, Broken Hill, Carbonate minerals, Conchoidal fracture, Conrad Gessner, Cornwall, Crystal, Crystal twinning, Czech Republic, Elizabeth I of England, François Sulpice Beudant, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Johanngeorgenstadt, Lahnstein, Latin, Lead carbonate, Lead paint, Lead poisoning, Lead(II) acetate, Light of the Desert, Mineral, Mohs scale of mineral hardness, Nitric acid, Ore, Orthorhombic crystal system, Pennsylvania, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Royal Ontario Museum, Sardinia, Saxony, Specific gravity, St Minver, Stříbro, Toronto, Venetian ceruse, White lead, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger.

Acicular (crystal habit)

Acicular, in mineralogy, refers to a crystal habit composed of slender, needle-like crystals.

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Aragonite

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the two most common, naturally occurring, crystal forms of calcium carbonate, CaCO3 (the other forms being the minerals calcite and vaterite).

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Broken Hill

Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia.

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Carbonate minerals

Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion, CO32−.

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Conchoidal fracture

Conchoidal fracture describes the way that brittle materials break or fracture when they do not follow any natural planes of separation.

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Conrad Gessner

Conrad Gessner (Conradus Gesnerus; Conrad Geßner or Cůnrat Geßner; 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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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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Crystal twinning

Crystal twinning occurs when two separate crystals share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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François Sulpice Beudant

François Sulpice Beudant (5 September 1787 – 10 December 1850), French mineralogist and geologist.

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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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Johanngeorgenstadt

Johanngeorgenstadt is a mining town in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary.

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Lahnstein

Lahnstein is a ''verband''-free town of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lead carbonate

Lead(II) carbonate is the chemical compound PbCO3.

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Lead paint

Lead paint or lead-based paint is paint containing lead.

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Lead poisoning

Lead poisoning is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body.

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Lead(II) acetate

Lead(II) acetate (Pb(CH3COO)2), also known as lead acetate, lead diacetate, plumbous acetate, sugar of lead, lead sugar, salt of Saturn, or Goulard's powder, is a white crystalline chemical compound with a sweetish taste.

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Light of the Desert

The Light of the Desert is a cerussite gem in the Royal Ontario Museum's collection.

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Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.

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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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Nitric acid

Nitric acid (HNO3), also known as aqua fortis (Latin for "strong water") and spirit of niter, is a highly corrosive mineral acid.

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Ore

An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.

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Orthorhombic crystal system

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

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, northwest of Philadelphia, at the junction of French Creek with the Schuylkill River.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of the 16 states (Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM, Musée royal de l'Ontario) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Sardinia

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Saxony

The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).

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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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St Minver

St Minver (Sen Menvra) is the name of an ecclesiastical parish, a civil parish and a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Stříbro

Stříbro (Mies) is a town in the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Venetian ceruse

Venetian Ceruse, also known as Spirits of Saturn, was a 16th-century cosmetic used as a skin whitener.

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White lead

White lead is the basic lead carbonate, 2PbCO3·Pb(OH)2.

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Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger

Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (or Wilhelm von Haidinger, or most often Wilhelm Haidinger) (5 February 1795 – 19 March 1871) was an Austrian mineralogist.

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References

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

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