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Common Halide Minerals
The links above will take you to the Mineral Gallery website
(http://www.galleries.com).
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Click here to go to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division's Periodic Table of the Elements.
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The minerals that make up the halide class include those in which the halogen elements of chlorine, bromine, fluorine, and iodine are combined with one or more metals.
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Fluorite. The largest crystal was found in New Mexico. It weighed over 16,000 kg.
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Minerals of the halide class all have:
- relative low hardness
- moderate to high melting points
- poor conductors of heat and electricity
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Halite. Comes from the Greek word meaning salt.
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