Constituent
- Name
- Magnesium(II) chloride hydrate
- Official name
- Magnesium(II) chloride hydrate
- Family
- ionic solid
- Class
- normal salt
- Compound type
- chloride
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- inclusion
- Mass fraction
- 25.0 $\pm$ 0.1
- Formula
- $Mg^{2+}.Cl^-_2 \bullet n(H_2O)$
- Chemical formula
- MgCl2.n(H2O)
- Elemental formula
- (Mg2+) (Cl-)2 (H)0-n (O)0-n
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- normal salts (07)
- Type
- hydrated simple normal salts (07.04)
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- various
- Crystal class
- various
- Crystal class symbol
- N/A
- Crystal spacegroup
- N/A
- Molar mass
- 131.24 + n*18.015 $g/mol$
- Refringence type
- various
- Color
- colorless, white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent
- Luster
- vitreous