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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...
- copper and copper-chlorine resinate; the crystalline material might be atacamite or some other copper-chlorine compound. Analysis of the red-brown paint...
- pollution or sea winds) typically favour the formation of brochantite or atacamite. Malachite can also be produced synthetically, in which case it is referred...
- fumaroles and in some copper mines. Mixed oxyhydroxide-chlorides like atacamite (Cu2(OH)3Cl) are more common, arising among Cu ore beds oxidation zones...
- water-insoluble. It occurs ****ociated with native silver, cerussite, iodargyrite, atacamite, malachite, jarosite and various iron–manganese oxides. It was first described...
- Bowenite Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Arfvedsonite Asbestos Astrophyllite Atacamite Augelite Austinite Axinite group: Ferroaxinite Magnesioaxinite Manganaxinite...
- Ashoverite Asisite Aspedamite Aspidolite Astrocyanite-(Ce) Astrophyllite Atacamite Atelestite Atencioite Athabascaite Atheneite Attikaite Aubertite Augelite...
- is Cu3(Cu,Zn)(OH)6Cl2. Its name is derived from its ****ociation with atacamite. Paratacamite was first described by Herbert Smith in 1906. The zincian...
- minerals may also have polyatomic anions. Examples include the following: Atacamite Cu2Cl(OH)3 Avogadrite (K,Cs)BF Bararite (β)(NH4)2SiF6 Bischofite MgCl2·6H2O...