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词条 Acanthite
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{{infobox mineral
| name = Acanthite
| category = Sulfide mineral
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| image = Acanthite on Calcite - Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.jpg
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| caption = Acanthite on white calcite from Freiberg District, Erzgebirge. Scale is one inch with a rule at one cm
| formula = Ag2S
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| strunz = 2.BA.30a
| dana =
| system = Monoclinic[1]
| class = Prismatic (2/m)
(same H-M symbol)
| symmetry = P21/n
| unit cell = a = 4.229 Å, b = 6.931 Å
c = 7.862 Å; β = 99.61°; Z = 4
| color = Iron-black
| colour =
| habit = Primary crystals rare, prismatic to long prismatic, elongated along [001], may be tubular; massive. Commonly paramorphic after the cubic high-temperature phase (“argentite”), of original cubic or octahedral habit
| twinning = Polysynthetic on {111}, may be very complex due to inversion; contact on {101}
| cleavage = Indistinct
| fracture = Uneven
| tenacity = Sectile
| mohs = 2.0 - 2.5
| luster = Metallic
| streak = Black
| diaphaneity = Opaque
| gravity = 7.20 - 7.22
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| references = [2][3][4][5]
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Acanthite is a form of silver sulfide with the chemical formula Ag2S. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system and is the stable form of silver sulfide below {{convert|173|C}}. Argentite is the stable form above that temperature. As argentite cools below that temperature its cubic form is distorted to the monoclinic form of acanthite. Below 173 °C acanthite forms directly.[2][5] Acanthite is the only stable form in normal air temperature.

Occurrence

Acanthite is a common silver mineral in moderately low-temperature hydrothermal

veins and in zones of supergene enrichment. It occurs in association with native silver, pyrargyrite, proustite, polybasite, stephanite, aguilarite, galena,

chalcopyrite, sphalerite, calcite and quartz.[2]

Acanthite was first described in 1855 for an occurrence in the Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal) District, Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic. The name is from the Greek "akantha" meaning thorn or arrow, in reference to its crystal shape.[3][4][5]

Gallery

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Bonewitz|first1=Ronald Louis|title=Rocks and Minerals|date=2012|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=978-0-7566-9042-7}}
2. ^{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/acanthite.pdf |title=Acanthite |encyclopedia=Handbook of Mineralogy |editor1-first=John W. |editor1-last=Anthony|editor2-first=Richard A. |editor2-last=Bideaux|editor3-first=Kenneth W. |editor3-last=Bladh|editor4-first= Monte C. |editor4-last=Nichols |publisher=Mineralogical Society of America|location=Chantilly, VA}}
3. ^Mindat.org
4. ^Webmineral data
5. ^Klein, Cornelis and Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Manual of Mineralogy, Wiley, 20th ed., 1985, pp. 271-2 {{ISBN|0-471-80580-7}}
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