Constituent
- Name
- ZnS Zn sulfide sphalerite
- Official name
- Zinc sulfide beta
- Family
- covalent network solid
- Class
- tridimentional covalent network solid
- Compound type
- non-oxide ceramic
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $\beta-ZnS$
- Chemical formula
- ZnS
- Elemental formula
- Zn S
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- tridimensional covalent networks (11)
- Type
- metal homonuclear tridimensional networks (elemental) (11.02)
- Phase name
- $\beta-ZnS$
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- isometric (cubic)
- Crystal class
- hextetrahedral
- Crystal class symbol
- -43m (Td)
- Crystal spacegroup
- F-43m
- Texture
- polycrystalline
- Molar mass
- 97.474 $g/mol$
- Density
- 4.09 $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- isotropic
- Refringence sign
- no
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 2.369
- Color
- colorless, white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent
- Luster
- resinous