Constituent
Name
Serpentine Rawhide
Family
mineral
Class
silicate mineral
Compound type
phyllosilicate
Comments
Serpentine Rawhide (California, US) is mostly antigorite with chrysotile veins. The chemical formula given for the constituent "Serpentine Rawhide" was measured by Rubino et al. 2020, by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX at 15 keV) on a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Constituent abundance in material
Relevance
main - major
Arrangement
single phase
Mass fraction
1.0 $\pm$ 0.01
Chemical composition
Formula
$Mg_{2.8}Fe_{0.2}Al_{0.04}Si_{1.9}O_5(OH)_4$
Chemical formula
$Mg_{2.8}Fe_{0.2}Al_{0.04}Si_{1.9}O_5(OH)_4$
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Mass fraction State Relevance Comments
$H$ Hydrogen element 4 0.22296544035674473 0.014312700711105932 constituent element main
$O$ Oxygen element 9 0.5016722408026757 0.5111791410737281 constituent element main
$Si$ Silicon element 1.9 0.10590858416945374 0.18943607160678083 constituent element main
$Mg$ Magnesium element 2.8 0.1560758082497213 0.24159090178820242 constituent element main
$Fe$ Iron element 0.2 0.011148272017837238 0.039649818997743454 constituent element main
$Al$ Aluminium element 0.04 0.0022296544035674474 0.003831365822439353 constituent element main
Phase type
crystalline