Constituent feroxyhyte | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: feroxyhyte
IMA name: Feroxyhyte

Class: non-silicate mineral
Compound type: oxide-hydroxide

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Formula: $Fe^{3+}O(OH)$
Chemical formula: FeO(OH)
Elemental formula: (Fe3+) O H (O-)
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$Fe^{3+}$	Iron(III) cation	element	1		constituent element	main
	$O$	Oxygen	element	1		constituent element	main
	$(OH)^-$	Hydroxide anion	chemical function	1		anionic radical	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$(OH)^-$	1

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$O^--H$	1

Oxides composition

Oxides

Formula	$Fe_{2}O_{3}$	$H_{2}O$
Mass fraction (%)	89.86	10.14

Classifications

Strunz

Class: oxides - hydroxides - arsenites (04)
Division: hydroxides (without V or U) (04.F)
Family: Hydroxides with OH, without H2O; sheets of edge-sharing octahedral (04.FE)
Code: 04.FE.40

Dana

Major class: oxides and hydroxides (III)
Class: hydroxides and oxides containing hydroxyl (06)
Type: where X+++O OH (06.01)
Group: Heterogenite Group (06.01.04)
Code: 06.01.04.04

Phase name: delta-FeO(OH)
Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: hexagonal
Crystal class: unknown
Crystal class symbol: unknown
Crystal spacegroup: unknown

Physical properties

Molar mass: 88.85 $g/mol$
Density: 4.2 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: uniaxial
Refringence sign: unknown
Color: yellow-brown, brown
Diaphaneity: opaque