Show Mineral Details
| Mineral: |
Ferrihydrite |
| English Trivial: |
HFO - Hydrous Ferric Oxide |
| Formula: |
Fe₂O₃·nH₂O |
| Mineralogical Group: |
Fe oxides/hydroxides |
| Petrological Group: |
weathering minerals |
| Crystallographic System: |
Hexagonal Scalenohedral |
| Strunz Classification: |
IV/F |
| Molar Mass in g/mol: |
177.707 |
| Density in g/cm³: |
3.8 |
| Comment: |
alternative formulae:
Fe(OH)3 with MM=106.869 g/mol and ny = 1 - 5 Fe2O3 · 9 H2O with MM=960.598 g/mol and ny = 10 |
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1 data sets were retrieved
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