Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Gerhardite

Gerhardite

A basic copper nitrate containing 52.9% copper. Crystallization, orthorhombic. Cleavage, yields flexible laminae. Tenacity, fragile, and sectile. Mohs hardness, 2; sp gr, 3.426; luster, vitreous, brilliant; color, deep emerald-green; streak, light green; transparent; soluble in dilute acids. From Jerome, Arizona.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Politics Category: Protest

Indignants movement

A mass movement that started in Spain in May 2011 to protest against economic injustice as the impact of Spain's deepest economic crisis in decades ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Machine-Translation terminology

Category: Languages   1 2 Terms

Intro to Psychology

Category: Education   1 5 Terms