Cinnabar [ HgS ]
Material properties
| Formula | HgS |
| Abbreviation | Cin |
| IMA Status | Grandfathered (pre-IMA), antiquity |
| Crystal symmetry | Trigonal, Point group 32, Space group P3121 (#152) |
| Classification | Mercury sulphide |
| Related materials | Hypercinnabar, Metacinnabar |
| Luminescence emitters | Band gap, Unspecified, Vibro-electronic transition |
| Reflectance line | Unspecified |
| Spectra | Luminescence (1) |
| Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
| Tags | Mineral, Sulphide |
Composition
| Element | Atoms |
|---|---|
| S | 1 |
| Hg | 1 |
| Total: | 2 |
References for Cinnabar
|
Lines | Spectra | Images | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aicardi et al. 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| CSIRO KLM database 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Moenke 1974 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| CSIRO CL spectra 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Simpson et al. 1978 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tarashchan 1978 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Specimens of Cinnabar
| Name | Owner | Materials | Phase purity | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M0271 Cinnabar | CSIRO | Cinnabar (100.0%) | 100.0 | |
| M0268 Cinnabar | CSIRO | Cinnabar (57.1%), Hematite, Quartz | 57.1 |
