Chemical Properties
Brass-yellow or brown, tarnished min-
eral, greenish or brownish-black streak, metallic
luster.
Physical properties
Habit: tabular, cickscomb aggregate, faces curved.
Color: white green.
Luster: metallic.
Diaphaneity: opaque.
Fracture: conchoidal.
Cleavage: {101}.
Twinning: {101}.
Streak: black. Pyroelectric.
Occurrence: sedimentary, magmatic, metamorphic,
and hydrothermal.
Uses
Iron sulfide is used in photovoltaics and lithium ion battery cathodes. It is also studied as a potential material for the sequestration of environmental contaminants.
Uses
Manufacture of sulfur, sulfuric acid and sulfur
dioxide, ferrous sulfate, cheap jewelry, recovery of
metals.
Definition
Often mixed with small
amounts of copper, arsenic, nickel, cobalt, gold,
selenium.
