Woodwardite

Formula: Cu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12.2-4H2O

Origin of name: for Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821-1865), English naturalist and geologist.

 

Crystal system: Hexagonal

Crystal class: 3 2/m (probable)

Twinning:

Unit cell: a = 6, c = 27.3

 

Colour: Greenish blue to turquoise-blue

Diaphaneity: Translucent

Luster: Translucent to transparent

Habit: Concretions with fine-fibrous structure, tiny, spherulitic, botryoidal

Hardness

Specific gravity: 2.38

Cleavage: None

Tenacity: 

Streak: Light blue

 

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