Constituent
Name
Serpentine Rawhide
Family
mineral
Class
silicate mineral
Compound type
phyllosilicate
Comments
Serpentine Rawhide (California, US) is mostly antigorite with chrysotile veins. The chemical formula given for the constituent "Serpentine Rawhide" was measured by Rubino et al. 2020, by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX at 15 keV) on a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Constituent abundance in material
Relevance
main - major
Arrangement
single phase
Mass fraction
1.0 $\pm$ 0.01
Chemical composition
Formula
$Mg_{2.8}Fe_{0.2}Al_{0.04}Si_{1.9}O_5(OH)_4$
Chemical formula
$Mg_{2.8}Fe_{0.2}Al_{0.04}Si_{1.9}O_5(OH)_4$
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Mass fraction State Relevance Comments
$H$ Hydrogen element 4 0.222965440356745 0.0143127007111059 constituent element main
$O$ Oxygen element 9 0.501672240802676 0.511179141073728 constituent element main
$Si$ Silicon element 1.9 0.105908584169454 0.189436071606781 constituent element main
$Mg$ Magnesium element 2.8 0.156075808249721 0.241590901788202 constituent element main
$Fe$ Iron element 0.2 0.0111482720178372 0.0396498189977435 constituent element main
$Al$ Aluminium element 0.04 0.00222965440356745 0.00383136582243935 constituent element main
Phase type
crystalline