Carnotite

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Carnotite specimen from Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon District, Utah, USA.

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Properties

Formula K2(UO2)2(VO4)2ยท3H2O
Abbreviation Cnt
Classification Carnotite (group)
Luminescence emitters UO2, VO4
IMA Status Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1899
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Crystal symmetry Monoclinic, Point group 2/m, Space group P21/c (#14)
Tags Mineral, Uranyl , Vanadate , Hydrated

Composition

Element Atoms
H 6
U 2
K 2
O 15
V 2
Total: 27

References

Reference Lines Spectra Images
Gorobets and Sidorenko 1974; Sidorenko et al. 1986 1 0 0
Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 3 0 0