Cinnabar
Properties
| Formula | HgS |
| Abbreviation | Cin |
| Classification | Mercury sulphide |
| Luminescence emitters | Hg, Unspecified, Vibro-electronic transition |
| Spectra | Luminescence (1), SXES (1) |
| IMA Status | Grandfathered (pre-IMA), antiquity |
| Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
| Related materials | Hypercinnabar, Metacinnabar |
| Crystal symmetry | Trigonal, Point group 32, Space group P3121 (#152) |
| Tags | Mineral, Sulphide |
Composition
| Element | Atoms |
|---|---|
| S | 1 |
| Hg | 1 |
| Total: | 2 |
References
| Reference | Lines | Spectra | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aicardi et al. 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| CSIRO KLM database 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| CSIRO SXES database | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Moenke 1974 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| CSIRO CL spectra 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 |