Czochralskiite

czochralskiite

kamacite

taenite

meteorite

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Formula: Na4Ca3Mg(PO4)4
Anhydrous phosphate
Crystal system: Orthorhombic
Specific gravity: 3.148 calculated
Hardness: 4 to 5
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless
Luminescence: No fluorescence under UV
Environments

Meteorites

Localities

At the type locality, Morasko meteorite, Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, czochralskiite is a very rare mineral occurring in phosphate inclusions (nodules) with graphite rims enclosed in the kamacitetaenite matrix of the iron meteorite. Almost thirty mineral species have been reported from this meteorite (most from various inclusions), including six, possibly eight, phosphates (fluorapatite, buchwaldite, brianite, merrillite, moraskoite, chlorapatite? and whitlockite?), and schreibersite, chromite, bronzite, kosmochlor, kosmochloraugite, olivine, albite, orthoclase, quartz, cohenite, nickelphosphide, altaite, troilite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, daubreelite, djerfisherite and native copper. Czochralskiite forms xenomorphic, usually oval grains and amoeboid aggregates, between 0.1 and 0.5 mm in size. It is colourless and transparent, with a white streak and vitreous lustre. It is interpreted as a primary phosphate, which crystallised together with graphite and other phosphates inside the nodules (EJM 28.5.969-977).

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