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Concept
Tridymite
Summary
Infobox mineral
| name = Tridymite
| category = Oxide mineral (or tectosilicate), quartz group
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| image = Tridymite tabulars - Ochtendung, Eifel, Germany.jpg
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| caption = tabular tridymite crystals from Ochtendung, Eifel, Germany
| formula = SiO2
| molweight = 60.08 g/mol
| strunz = 4.DA.10
| IMAsymbol = Trd
| system = Orthorhombic (α-tridymite)
| class = Disphenoidal (222) H–M symbol: (222)
| symmetry = C2221
| color = Colorless, white
| habit = Platy – sheet forms
| cleavage = {0001} indistinct, {1010} imperfect
| fracture = Brittle – conchoidal
| mohs = 7
| luster = Vitreous
| refractive = 'nα=1.468–1.482 nβ=1.470–1.484 nγ=1.474–1.486
| opticalprop = Biaxial (+), 2V = 40–86°
| birefringence = δ < 0.004
| pleochroism = Colorless
| streak = white
| gravity = 2.25–2.28
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| other = non-radioactive, non-magnetic; fluorescent, short UV=dark red
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Tridymite is a high-temperature polymorph of silica and usually occurs as minute tabular white or colorless pseudo-hexagonal crystals, or scales, in cavities in felsic volcanic rocks. Its chemical formula is SiO2. Tridymite was first described in 1868 and the type location is in Hidalgo, Mexico. The name is from the Greek tridymos for triplet as tridymite commonly occurs as twinned crystal trillings (compound crystals comprising three twinned crystal components).
Tridymite can occur in seven crystalline forms. Two of the most common at standard pressure are known as α and β. The α-tridymite phase is favored at elevated temperatures (above 870 °C) and it converts to β-cristobalite at 1,470 °C. However, tridymite does usually not form from pure β-quartz, one needs to add trace amounts of certain compounds to achieve this. Otherwise the β-quartz-tridymite transition is skipped and β-quartz transitions directly to cristobalite at 1,050 °C without occurrence of the tridymite phase.
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