Axotomous antimony glance — is a partially obsolete, now trivial name under which at least two related minerals from the subclass of sulfosalts (complex sulfides),[1]: 16 containing antimony, lead and sulfur were known in mineralogy and mineragraphy. Moreover, all three words in the title had meaningful meaning from the point of view of scientific terminology.
| Axotomous antimony glance | |
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 Bournonite (Potosí, Bolivia) | |
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- Axotomic, axotomous (German: axotomatisch) — meant that the mineral had a so-called perfect cleavage in a certain direction, giving a plane of easy fracture.[2]: 10
- Antimony — meant that the mineral contains a significant amount of antimony and is of interest as a natural mineral stibnite of one or more metals.
- Glance — meant not just the presence of a metallic luster (shine) on the surface of a mineral, but, first of all, belonging to a broad morphological group of minerals, the so-called glances.
Essential minerals
edit- Bournonite[3]: 285 (also berthonite, volchite or dystomic glance)[1] — mineral of the subclass of complex sulfides, composition copper-lead sulfoantimonide with the calculation formula CuPbSbS3.
- Jamesonite[4]: 501 (also domingite, comumite, pfaffite or cirrus ore)[1] — mineral of the subclass of complex ribbon sulfides, according to the composition of iron-lead sulfoantimonide with the calculation formula Pb4FeSb6S14.
Gallery
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References
edit- ^ a b c Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Scientific editor A. G. Bulakh. — St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. — 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0
- ^ F. Yu. Levinson-Lessing. Petrographic Dictionary. — Leningrad-Moscow: State Scientific and Technical Geological and Petroleum Publishing House, 1932. — 462 p.
- ^ Robert Jameson. Manual of Mineralogy: containing an account of simple minerals, and also a description and arrangement of mountain rocks. — Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co., 1821. — 494 p.
- ^ David Thomas Ansted, Walter Mitchell. Geology, Mineralogy, and Crystallography: Being a Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive View of Inorganic Nature The Form and Classification of Crystals, and a Chemical Arrangement of Minerals. — London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1855. — 590 p.
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