Formula: CaMoO4
Origin of name: for John Powell, American explorer
Crystal system: tetragonal
Crystal class: 4/m
Twinning:
Unit cell: a = 5.2126 Å, c = 11.43 Å
Colour: straw-yellow, greenish yellow, brown, white to gray, greenish blue
Diaphaneity:
Luster: subadamantine to greasy
Habit: crystals pyramidal, sometimes thin tabular, crystalline crusts, massive, foliated, pulverulent to ocherous
Hardness: 3.5 to 4
Specific gravity: 4.23
Cleavage: 3; {112}, {011} and {001} indistinct
Tenacity:
Streak:
Synonyms/varieties:
Comments: series with scheelite, fluoresces yellowish white to golden yellow
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