Bassanite is a calcium sulfate mineral with formula CaSO4·1/2H2O or 2CaSO4·H2O. In other words it has half a water molecule per CaSO4 unit, hence its...
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air it loses water and converts first to calcium sulfate hemihydrate (bassanite, often simply called "plaster") and, if heated further, to anhydrous calcium...
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4·2H 2O (gypsum and selenite (mineral)): dihydrate. CaSO 4·1/2H 2O (bassanite): hemihydrate, also known as plaster of Paris. Specific hemihydrates are...
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was merely a dense variety of basalt. Basanite (not to be confused with bassanite), Lydian stone, and radiolarite (a.k.a. lydite or flinty slate) are terms...
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sulfate hemihydrate. The natural form of the compound is the mineral bassanite. The name "plaster of Paris" was given because it was originally made...
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Barytolamprophyllite Blmp Bezsmertnovite Bez Botallackite Blk Buttgenbachite Bba Bassanite Bss Biachellaite Bcl Botryogen Byg Byelorussite-(Ce) Bye-Ce Bassetite...
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Calcite, aragonite Calcium sulfate CaSO4 Anhydrite, gypsum (CaSO4 · 2 H2O), bassanite (hemihydrate form) (CaSO4 · 0.5 H2O) Calcium oxalate CaC2O4 Beerstone...
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Bararite Baratovite Barrerite Barstowite Baryte (barite) Barytocalcite Bassanite Bastnäsite (mineral group) Baumhauerite Bavenite Bayldonite Bayleyite...
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who he married in 1880. A mineral from Vesuvius was named after him as bassanite in 1906. He died at Capri. Alfano, Giov. Batt. (1916). "Commemorazione...
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25 Eugsterite, 30 Gorgeyite; 35 Koktaite, 35 Syngenite; 40 Gypsum, 45 Bassanite, 50 Zircosulfate, 55 Schieffelinite, 60 Montanite, 65 Omongwaite 07.D...
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