Agardite is a mineral group consisting of agardite-(Ce) agardite-(Nd) agardite-(La) and agardite-(Y). They comprise a group of minerals that are hydrous hydrated arsenates of rare earth elements and copper which […]
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Afwillite
Afwillite is a calcium hydroxide nesosilicate mineral with formula Ca3(SiO3OH)2·2H2O. It occurs as glassy colorless to white prismatic monoclinic crystals. Its Mohs scale hardness is between 3 and 4. It […]
Struvite
Struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) is a phosphate mineral with formula: NH4MgPO4·6H2O. Struvite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system as white to yellowish or brownish-white pyramidal crystals or in platey mica-like forms. […]
Sumanene
Sumanene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and of scientific interest because the molecule can be considered a fragment of buckminsterfullerene. Suman means sunflower in both Hindi and Sanskrit. The core […]
5-Methyluridine
The chemical compound 5-methyluridine also called ribothymidine is a pyrimidine nucleoside. It is the ribonucleoside counterpart to the deoxyribonucleoside thymidine which lacks a hydroxyl group at the 2′ position. 5-Methyluridine […]
Descloizite
Descloizite is a rare mineral species consisting of basic lead and zinc vanadate (PbZn)2(OH)VO4 crystallizing in the orthorhombic crystal system and isomorphous with olivenite. Appreciable gallium and germanium may also […]
Triiodide
In chemistry triiodide usually refers to the triiodide ion I3−. This anion one of the polyhalogen ions is composed of three iodine atoms. It is formed by combining aqueous solutions […]
Sugilite
Sugilite (also known as lavulite) is a relatively rare pink to purple cyclosilicate mineral with the complex chemical formula KNa2(FeMnAl)2Li3Si12O30. Sugilite crystallizes in the hexagonal system with prismatic crystals. The […]
Salen ligand
Salen is the abbreviation for a popular chelating ligand used in coordination chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. The name salen is a contraction for salicylaldehyde and ethylenediamine. The ligand is a […]
Platinum hexafluoride
Platinum hexafluoride is the chemical compound with the formula PtF6. It is a dark-red volatile solid that forms a red gas. The compound is a unique example of platinum in […]