Matter
- Name
- Saponite Griffithite
- Family
- mineral
- Comments
- Being a natural matter from a terrestrial rock, "Saponite Griffithite" contains minor impurities: terrestrial organic matter and clinochlore.
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from commercial supplier
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Minerals Unlimited in Ridgecrest, California
- Body name
- Earth
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Griffith Park , California , United States
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- mineral (silicate mineral)
- Type of porosity
- unknown
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $MgO$ $FeO$ $CaO$ $TiO_{2}$ $MnO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ Mass fraction (%) 48.98 14.77 9.9 13.84 7.08 0.84 0.37 3.95 0.25 - Oxides comments
- Composition was obtained by Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) measurements (Rubino et al. 2020). {NB: Iron oxide composition is for FeO/Fe2O3}