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Diaphorite

Pb2Ag3Sb3S8

• Class: Sulfosalt

• Color: Gray
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Prismatic elongated to [001]
• Aggregate: Repeated twin
• Striation: [001]
• Twin: {120}{241}

• Cleavage: No
• Hardness: 3
• Density: 6

• System: Monoclinic
• Group: P2/m, P2(1)/a
• Lattice: a=15.8, b=17.9, c=5.9, a^c=116.3

Name: "Different" in Greek, because it is easily distinguished from freieslebenite

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