Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Phillipsite

Index Phillipsite

Phillipsite is a mineral series of the zeolite group; a hydrated potassium, calcium and aluminium silicate, approximating to (Ca,Na2,K2)3Al6Si10O32·12H2O. [1]

32 relations: Aluminium, Amygdule, Armand Lévy (mineralogist), Basalt, Calcium, Challenger expedition, Christian VIII of Denmark, Crystal twinning, Denmark, France, Giant's Causeway, Harmotome, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Leonard James Spencer, List of minerals, List of minerals named after people, Mafic, Melbourne, Mindat.org, Mohs scale of mineral hardness, Monoclinic crystal system, Pacific Ocean, Pelagic red clay, Potassium, Rome, Specific gravity, The Washington Post, Tobermorite, Victoria (Australia), Volcanic rock, William Phillips (geologist), Zeolite.

Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

New!!: Phillipsite and Aluminium · See more »

Amygdule

Amygdules or amygdales form when the gas bubbles or vesicles in volcanic lava (or other extrusive igneous rocks) are infilled with a secondary mineral such as calcite, quartz, chlorite or one of the zeolites.

New!!: Phillipsite and Amygdule · See more »

Armand Lévy (mineralogist)

Armand Lévy (14 November 1795 – 29 July 1841) was a French mathematician and mineralogist.

New!!: Phillipsite and Armand Lévy (mineralogist) · See more »

Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

New!!: Phillipsite and Basalt · See more »

Calcium

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

New!!: Phillipsite and Calcium · See more »

Challenger expedition

The Challenger expedition of 1872–76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.

New!!: Phillipsite and Challenger expedition · See more »

Christian VIII of Denmark

Christian VIII (18 September 1786 – 20 January 1848) was the King of Denmark from 1839 to 1848 and, as Christian Frederick, King of Norway in 1814.

New!!: Phillipsite and Christian VIII of Denmark · See more »

Crystal twinning

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

New!!: Phillipsite and Crystal twinning · See more »

Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

New!!: Phillipsite and Denmark · See more »

France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

New!!: Phillipsite and France · See more »

Giant's Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption.

New!!: Phillipsite and Giant's Causeway · See more »

Harmotome

Harmotome is a mineral, one of the rarer zeolites; a hydrated barium silicate with formula: (Ba0.5,Ca0.5,Na,K)5Al5,Si11O32·12(H2O).

New!!: Phillipsite and Harmotome · See more »

Hermann–Mauguin notation

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

New!!: Phillipsite and Hermann–Mauguin notation · See more »

Leonard James Spencer

Leonard James Spencer CBE FRS (7 July 1870 – 14 April 1959) was a British geologist.

New!!: Phillipsite and Leonard James Spencer · See more »

List of minerals

This is a list of minerals for which there are articles on Wikipedia.

New!!: Phillipsite and List of minerals · See more »

List of minerals named after people

This is a list of minerals named after famous or notable people.

New!!: Phillipsite and List of minerals named after people · See more »

Mafic

Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and '''f'''err'''ic'''.

New!!: Phillipsite and Mafic · See more »

Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

New!!: Phillipsite and Melbourne · See more »

Mindat.org

Mindat.org is a non-commercial online mineralogical database, claiming to be the largest mineral database and mineralogical reference website on the internet.

New!!: Phillipsite and Mindat.org · See more »

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.

New!!: Phillipsite and Mohs scale of mineral hardness · See more »

Monoclinic crystal system

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

New!!: Phillipsite and Monoclinic crystal system · See more »

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

New!!: Phillipsite and Pacific Ocean · See more »

Pelagic red clay

Pelagic red clay, also known as simply red clay, brown clay or pelagic clay, is a type of pelagic sediment.

New!!: Phillipsite and Pelagic red clay · See more »

Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19.

New!!: Phillipsite and Potassium · See more »

Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

New!!: Phillipsite and Rome · See more »

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.

New!!: Phillipsite and Specific gravity · See more »

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

New!!: Phillipsite and The Washington Post · See more »

Tobermorite

Tobermorite is a calcium silicate hydrate mineral with chemical formula: Ca5Si6O16(OH)2·4H2O or Ca5Si6(O,OH)18·5H2O.

New!!: Phillipsite and Tobermorite · See more »

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

New!!: Phillipsite and Victoria (Australia) · See more »

Volcanic rock

Volcanic rock (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) is a rock formed from magma erupted from a volcano.

New!!: Phillipsite and Volcanic rock · See more »

William Phillips (geologist)

William Phillips FGS FRS (10 May 1775 – 2 April 1828) was an English mineralogist and geologist.

New!!: Phillipsite and William Phillips (geologist) · See more »

Zeolite

Zeolites are microporous, aluminosilicate minerals commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.

New!!: Phillipsite and Zeolite · See more »

References

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

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »