Moschellandsbergite is a rare
isometric
The term ''isometric'' comes from the Greek for "having equal measurement".
isometric may mean:
* Cubic crystal system, also called isometric crystal system
* Isometre, a rhythmic technique in music.
* "Isometric (Intro)", a song by Madeon from ...
mineral made up of a silver-white
amalgam of
mercury
Mercury commonly refers to:
* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
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and
silver with the chemical makeup Ag
2Hg
3.
It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near
Obermoschel,
Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany.
It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite– tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite
Sphalerite (sometimes spelled sphaelerite) is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula . It is the most important ore of zinc. Sphalerite is found in a variety of deposit types, but it is primarily in Sedimentary exhalative deposits, sedimen ...
and chalcopyrite.[
]
References
Native element minerals
Mercury minerals
Silver minerals
Cubic minerals
Minerals in space group 197
Minerals described in 1938
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