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V - Carbonates

 
Name   Artinite
Chemistry   Mg2[(CO)2|CO3]·3H2O
Hardness   2.5
Lustre   silky
Colour   colourless or white
Streak   white 
Density [g/cm3]   2.0
Crystal habit   monoclinic
Cleavage, Fracture   [100] perfect, [001] good, fracture fibrous
other characteristics and occurrences   often radiating spherical aggregates of acicular crystals, hydrothermal formation at very low temperatures as well as with ultra-basic igneous and metamorphic rocks
   

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