Goethite, the Glossary
Goethite is a mineral of the diaspore group, consisting of iron(III) oxide-hydroxide, specifically the α-polymorph.[1]
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- Iron ores
- Iron oxide pigments
- Magnetic minerals
- Minerals described in 1806
Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Authigenesis
Authigenesis is the process whereby a mineral or sedimentary rock deposit is generated where it is found or observed.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Bog iron
Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. Goethite and bog iron are iron ores.
Cabochon
A cabochon is a gemstone that has been shaped and polished, as opposed to faceted.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil.
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
Crystal polymorphism
In crystallography, polymorphism is the phenomenon where a compound or element can crystallize into more than one crystal structure.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Diagenesis
Diagenesis is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition.
Diaspore
Diasporealso called diasporite, empholite, kayserite, or tanatariteis an aluminium hydroxide oxide mineral, α-AlO(OH), crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and isomorphous with goethite. Goethite and diaspore are hydroxide minerals, minerals in space group 62 and orthorhombic minerals.
Elastic modulus
An elastic modulus (also known as modulus of elasticity) is the unit of measurement of an object's or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Feroxyhyte
Feroxyhyte is an oxide/hydroxide of iron, δ-Fe3+O(OH). Goethite and Feroxyhyte are hydroxide minerals and iron(III) minerals.
Ferric
In chemistry, iron(III) or ferric refers to the element iron in its +3 oxidation state.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gordias
Gordias (Γορδίας, Gordías; also Γόρδιος, Górdios, "Gordius") was the name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia.
Gossan
Gossan (eiserner hut or eisenhut) is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein.
Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
Gusev (Martian crater)
Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at and is in the Aeolis quadrangle.
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Herdorf
Herdorf is a town in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Hermann–Mauguin notation
In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.
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Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Hydroxide
Hydroxide is a diatomic anion with chemical formula OH−.
Iridescence
Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.
Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. Goethite and iron ore are iron ores.
Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide
Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide or ferric oxyhydroxideA.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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Lake George, Colorado
Lake George is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Park County, Colorado, United States.
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Lascaux
Lascaux (Grotte de Lascaux, "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.
Laterite
Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.
Lepidocrocite
Lepidocrocite (γ-FeO(OH)), also called esmeraldite or hydrohematite, is an iron oxide-hydroxide mineral. Goethite and Lepidocrocite are hydroxide minerals, iron(III) minerals and orthorhombic minerals.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
Limpet
Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot.
List of minerals
This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles.
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List of minerals named after people
This is a list of minerals named after people.
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Marcasite
The mineral marcasite, sometimes called "white iron pyrite", is iron sulfide (FeS2) with orthorhombic crystal structure. Goethite and marcasite are orthorhombic minerals.
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Midas
Midas (Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Mohs scale
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.
Monocrystalline whisker
A monocrystalline whisker is a filament of material that is structured as a single, defect-free crystal.
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Nanoparticle
A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter.
Ochre
Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. Goethite and ochre are iron ores and iron oxide pigments.
Oolite
Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers.
Orthorhombic crystal system
In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Oxide mineral
The oxide mineral class includes those minerals in which the oxide anion (O2−) is bonded to one or more metal alloys.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.
Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Polymath
A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
Pseudomorph
In mineralogy, a pseudomorph is a mineral or mineral compound that appears in an atypical form (crystal system), resulting from a substitution process in which the appearance and dimensions remain constant, but the original mineral is replaced by another.
Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).
Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Relative density
Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.
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Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
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Rust
Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture.
Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.
Siderite
Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3). Goethite and Siderite are iron ores.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Spirit (rover)
Spirit, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a Mars robotic rover, active from 2004 to 2010.
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Stalactite
A stalactite is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures such as bridges and mines.
Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Tharsis, Huelva
Tharsis is a village that is part of the Alosno municipality in the province of Huelva, Spain.
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Ultimate tensile strength
Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or F_\text in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
See also
Iron ores
- Banded iron formation
- Bog iron
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Iron ore
- Iron-rich sedimentary rocks
- Ironsand
- Ironstone
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Ochre
- Siderite
Iron oxide pigments
- Attic ochre
- Caput mortuum (pigment)
- Earth pigment
- Falu red
- Ferrihydrite
- Goethite
- Golden ochre
- Hematite
- Hemosiderin
- Iron oxide
- Iron oxide red
- Iron(II) oxide
- Iron(II,III) oxide
- Iron(III) oxide
- Magnetite
- Mars Black (pigment)
- Mummy brown
- Ochre
- Sienna
- Sinopia
- Umber
- Venetian red
Magnetic minerals
- Cuprospinel
- Goethite
- Greigite
- Hematite
- Ilmenite
- Jacobsite
- Kamacite
- Maghemite
- Magnesioferrite
- Magnetite
- Pyrrhotite
- Suessite
- Taenite
- Trevorite
Minerals described in 1806
- Goethite
- Minium (mineral)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethite
Also known as Allcharite, Gothite.
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