Torbernite

Word TORBERNITE
Character 10
Hyphenation tor bern ite
Pronunciations N/A

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A green radioactive mineral that is a hydrous crystalline phosphate of uranium and copper. noun

A native phosphate of uranium and copper, occurring in square tabular crystals of a bright-green color, pearly luster, and micaceous cleavage. Also called chalcolite, and copper uranite. noun

A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite. noun

A radioactive green phosphate mineral, isostructural with autunite, found in granites and other uranium-bearing deposits as a secondary mineral. noun

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The mica does not everywhere present this coarsely crystalline appearance, but in flexures and lines of union with the quartz and orthoclase is degraded to a mica schist upon whose surfaces appear uranates of lime and copper (autunite and torbernite), and in which are inclosed garnet crystals of considerable size and beauty. ❋ Various (N/A)

AUTUNITE, or CALCO-URANITE, a mineral which is one of the "uranium micas," differing from the more commonly occurring torbernite (_q. v._) or cupro-uranite in containing calcium in place of copper. ❋ Various (N/A)

The colour is sulphur-yellow, and this enables the mineral to be distinguished at a glance from the emerald-green torbernite. ❋ Various (N/A)

Though closely resembling the tetragonal torbernite in form, it crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and is optically biaxial. ❋ Various (N/A)

The radium-bearing minerals are torbernite and autunite (hydrous copper-uranium and calcium-uranium phosphates), and are found in dark felsite dikes near their intersections with east-west gold-silver-quartz veins. ❋ Unknown (1915)

; and as phosphate in the uranites, torbernite (hydrated phosphate of uranium and copper), and autunite (hydrated phosphate of uranium and lime). ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

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