spinel

oxide mineral
ChemicalSubstance mineral_species Q191310
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spinel

Summary

spinel is a mineral species[1]. spinel ranks in the top 0.91% of mineral_species entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (923 views/month, #13 of 1,431).[2]

Key Facts

  • spinel's image is recorded as Spinel2.jpg[3].
  • spinel's instance of is recorded as mineral species[4].
  • spinose structure is named after spinel[5].
  • spinel's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 1302-67-6[6].
  • spinel's EC number is recorded as 215-105-9[7].
  • spinel's chemical formula is recorded as MgAl₂O₄[8].
  • spinel's subclass of is recorded as oxyspinel group[9].
  • spinel's Commons category is recorded as Spinel[10].
  • spinel's streak color is recorded as white[11].
  • spinel's crystal system is recorded as cubic crystal system[12].
  • spinel's IMA status and/or rank is recorded as grandfathered mineral (G)[13].
  • spinel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0796k[14].
  • spinel's ZVG number is recorded as 109330[15].
  • spinel's space group is recorded as space group Fd-3m[16].
  • spinel's Strunz 8th edition is recorded as IV/B.01a[17].
  • spinel's Nickel-Strunz 9th edition is recorded as 4.BB.05[18].
  • spinel's Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of is recorded as 4.BB.05[19].
  • spinel's Dana 8th edition is recorded as 7.2.1.1[20].
  • spinel's Mohs' hardness is recorded as {'amount': '+8'}[21].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[24].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[25].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • spinel's described by source is recorded as De Natura Fossilium[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for spinel include ulvöspinel[28], a mineral species[29].

Why It Matters

spinel ranks in the top 0.91% of mineral_species entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (923 views/month, #13 of 1,431).[2] spinel has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] spinel is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for spinel include ulvöspinel[28], a mineral species[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . The IMA List of Minerals (November 2018). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . De Natura Fossilium. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . gestis-en.itrust.de. gestis-en.itrust.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . rruff. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Spinels Renaissance: The past, present, and future of those ubiquitous minerals and materials. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . IMA/CNMNC List of Mineral Names (March 2007). wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Mineralogische Tabellen : Eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage, mit einer Einfuhrung in die Kristallchemie (1982). wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q15221937. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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