Abhurite

Abhurite

Abhurite is a mineral of tin, oxygen, hydrogen, and chlorine with the formula Sn3O(OH)2Cl2. [Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: "Dana's new mineralogy", p. 401. John Wiley & Sons, 1997] It is named after Sharm Abhur, a cove of the Red Sea. Its Mohs scale rating is 2.

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External links

* [http://www.mindat.org/min-4.html Mindat.org]
* [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Abhurite.shtml Webmineral.org]


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