Perryite

Perryite
General
CategoryMineral
Formula
(repeating unit)		(Ni,Fe)8(Si,P)3
IMA symbolPRY
Identification
Color"Cream-yellow"[1]
TenacityDuctile[1]

Perryite is a nickel silicide mineral. It is found in extremely silicon-rich meteorites. The type material is housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.[1] It was first found in Horse Creek and described in 1963 by Fredriksson and Wickman.[2] It was named after Stuart Hoffman Perry, and American meteorite collector. The mineral is typically found intermixed with troilite, an iron sulfide.[2] It is a minor constituent of metal enstatite chondrite meteorites.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Perryite (Ni, Fe)8(Si, P)3 (PDF), Mineral Data Publishing
  2. ^ a b Reed, SJB (6 June 1968). "Perryite in the Kota-Kota and South Oman enstatite chondrites". Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society. 36 (282): 850–854. Bibcode:1968MinM...36..850R. doi:10.1180/minmag.1968.036.282.13.
  3. ^ Britvin, Sergey N.; Krivovichev, Sergey V.; et al. (2021-12-29). "Perryite, (Ni,Fe)16PSi5, from the Mount Egerton aubrite: the first natural P-Si-ordered phosphide-silicide". Journal of Geosciences. 66 (4): 189–198. doi:10.3190/jgeosci.331. ISSN 1802-6222. S2CID 247216396.


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