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This is a butterscotch colored bromargyrite cube from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals.

Halogen minerals is a lecture from the school of geology and the radiation astronomy department. It is about solid, crystalline substances that occur in and compose astronomical objects including the Earth. It focuses on materials containing large amounts of halogens that may occur on the surface of or associated with some astronomical objects.

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Quiz

  

1 Yes or No, Native iodine occurs abundantly around Mount Vesuvius.

Yes
No

2 Yes or No, Solid, natural fluorine occurs on the surface of the Earth in monoclinic form.

Yes
No

3 Fullerite appears to be a tentative name for the mineral occurrence of

.

4 True or False, Fluorite occurs as violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red, black, white and transparent forms.

TRUE
FALSE

5 Iodyrite (AgI) may be the most common mineral with large amounts of iodine found on

6 True or False, Chlorine occurs naturally in halites.

TRUE
FALSE

7 Complete the text:

Bromyrite, or

, is a

silver

mineral (AgBr) that is

bromine.

8 Yes or No, Astatine occurs naturally in minerals such as uraninite as a decay product of uranium.

Yes
No

9 Fluorite is a mineral that is associated with which of the following

a very low dispersion of light
determine the accuracy of local computers
combatting the residual aberration that standard optical glass fails to eliminate
predicting when currently dormant volcanoes will erupt
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super-telephoto L series lenses, telephoto zooms and wide-angle lenses

10 Yes or No, On Earth a halogen element usually occurs with an anion.

Yes
No

11 A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of?

12 True or False, Carpathite is a halogen mineral.

TRUE
FALSE

13 Yes or No, Silicon carbide contains the halogen carbon.

Yes
No

14 Yes or No, All of the known isotopes of astatine are very short-lived.

Yes
No

Hypotheses

  1. Halogen minerals are a generic for arid formation conditions.

See also

{{Radiation astronomy resources}}

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