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IX - Organic compounds
Crystal habit of Whewellite Whewellite

 
Name   Whewellite
Chemistry   Ca[C2O4]·H2O
Hardness   2.5
Lustre   vitreous - pearly
Colour   colourless, white, yellow, brown
Streak   white 
Density [g/cm3]   2.2
Crystal habit   monoclinic
Cleavage, Fracture   [101], [010], [110] good
other characteristics and occurrences   formed by low temperature hydrothermal solutions which have come into contact with carboniferous lithologies (graphite, graphitic schists, coal)
   

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