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Definition of Atacamite

Atacamite
Atacamite A*tac"a*mite, n. [From the desert of Atacama, where found.] (Min.) An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

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- Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3. It was first described for deposits in the Atacama Desert...
- hydroxychloride. This greenish substance is encountered as the minerals atacamite, paratacamite, and botallackite. Similar materials are ****igned to green...
- pollution or sea winds) typically favour the formation of brochantite or atacamite. Malachite can also be produced synthetically, in which case it is referred...
- water-insoluble. It occurs ****ociated with native silver, cerussite, iodargyrite, atacamite, malachite, jarosite and various iron–manganese oxides. It was first described...
- fumaroles and in some copper mines. Mixed oxyhydroxide-chlorides like atacamite (Cu2(OH)3Cl) are more common, arising among Cu ore beds oxidation zones...
- Bowenite Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Arfvedsonite Asbestos Astrophyllite Atacamite Augelite Austinite Axinite group: Ferroaxinite Magnesioaxinite Manganaxinite...
- the metal in the form of a copper-based chloride biomineral, known as atacamite, in crystalline form. It is theorized that this copper is used as a catalyst...
- Ashoverite Asisite Aspedamite Aspidolite Astrocyanite-(Ce) Astrophyllite Atacamite Atelestite Atencioite Athabascaite Atheneite Attikaite Aubertite Augelite...
- (crystals are generally separated and have different lengths). aenigmatite, atacamite, epidote, pyrophyllite, stibnite Reticulated Crystals forming triangular...
- Minerals ****ociated with boleite include pseudoboleite, ****engeite, atacamite, anglesite, cerussite, phosgenite and gypsum at the type locality in Boleo...