Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Sweetite has a general formula of Zn(OH)2. The name is given after a curator of mineral department of The British Museum Jessie May Sweet (1901-1979). It occurs in an oxidized vein in limestone bedrock with galena ashoverite wülfingite anglesite cerussite hydrocerussite litharge fluorite palygorskite and calcite.Sweetite is tetragonal which means crystallographically it contains one axis of unequal length and two axes of equal length. The angles between three of the axes are all 90°.