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Alpha quartz (aSi02) is found throughout the boiler and post-boiler sections. It is a very hard, adherent scale, found in the mud drum, on boiler tubes, and on turbine blades as a hexagonal crystal structure. 

By far the most abundant phosphate mineral is apatite, which accounts for more than 95% of all P in the Earth s crust. The basic composition of apatite is listed in Table 14-2. Apatite exhibits a hexagonal crystal structure with long open channels parallel to the c-axis. In its pure form, F , OH , or Cl occupies sites along this axis to form fluorapatite, hydroxyapatite, or chlor-apatite, respectively. However, because of the "open" nature of the apatite crystal lattice, many minor substitutions are possible and "pure" forms of apatite as depicted by the general formula in Table 14-2 are rarely found. 

In the late 1960s El Goresy and Donnay [17] discovered a new form of carbon which they called white carbon or Chaoite in a carbon-rich gneiss in the Ries meteorite crater in Bavaria. Chaoite has an hexagonal crystal structure and it... 

Table 2.1 shows the crystal structure data of the phases existing in the Mg-H system. Pnre Mg has a hexagonal crystal structure and its hydride has a tetragonal lattice nnit cell (rutile type). The low-pressure MgH is commonly designated as P-MgH in order to differentiate it from its high-pressure polymorph, which will be discussed later. Figure 2.2 shows the crystal structure of p-MgH where the positions of Mg and H atoms are clearly discerned. Precise measurements of the lattice parameters of p-MgH by synchrotron X-ray diffraction yielded a = 0.45180(6) mn and c = 0.30211(4) nm [2]. The powder diffraction file JCPDS 12-0697 lists a = 0.4517 nm and c = 0.30205 nm. The density of MgH is 1.45 g/cm [3]. 

Amorphous forms exhibit two colors, occurring as a red powder of density 4.26g/cm3 that has a hexagonal crystal structure and a black vitreous solid of density 4.28g/cm3. The red amorphous selenium converts to the black form on standing. Amorphous selenium melts at 60 to 80°C insoluble in water reacts with water at 50°C when freshly precipitated soluble in sulfuric acid, benzene and carbon disulfide. 

Crystalline selenium exhibits two monochnic forms an alpha form constituting dark red transparent crystals, density 4.50 g/cm. The alpha form converts to a metastable beta form of hexagonal crystal structure when heated to about 170°C. Both the crystalline forms are insoluble in water soluble in sulfuric and nitric acids very slightly soluble in carbon disulfide. Also, both the crystalline forms convert into gray metallic modification on heating. 

Silvery-gray metal hexagonal crystal structure malleable, ductile, and soft enough to be cut with a knife density 8.223 g/cm melts at 1,359°C vaporizes at 3,221°C resistivity llhxlCH ohm-cm at 25°C Young s modulus 5.75xl0n dynes/cm2 (from velocity of sound measurements) shear modulus 2.28 dynes/cm2 Poisson s ratio 0.261 thermal neutron absorption cross section, 46 barns insoluble in water soluble in acids. 

Titanium has two allotropic modifications (1) alpha form and (2) beta modification. The alpha form has a close-packed hexagonal crystal structure density 4.54 g/cm3 at 20°C and stable up to 882°C. It converts very slowly to a body-centered cubic beta form at 882°C. The density of the beta form is 4.40 g/cm3 at 900°C (estimated). The other physical properties are as follows ... 

Zinc sulfide is white to gray-white or pale yellow powder. It exists in two crystalline forms, an alpha (wurtzite) and a beta (sphalerite). The wurtzite form has hexagonal crystal structure refractive index 2.356 density 3.98 g/cm3 melts at 1,700°C practically insoluble in water, about 6.9 mg/L insoluble in alkalis soluble in mineral acids. The sphalerite form arranges in cubic crystalline state refractive index 2.368 density 4.102 g/cm changes to alpha form at 1,020°C practically insoluble in water, 6.5 mg/L soluble in mineral... 

The apatite family of minerals is a common feature to many of the minerals shown in Table 3. In nature, the apatite mineral structure conforms to the 6/m class of minerals with hexagonal crystal structure and the generic formula Me5(X04)3Z where Me is Ca, Sr, Ba, Cd, and Pb (typically), X = P, As, V, Mn, and Cr and Z = OH, F, Cl, and Br. In addition to caibon-ate apatite, chloroapatite, chloropyromorphite, fluoroaptite, fluoropyromorphite, hydroxyapatite, and hydroxypyromorphite, the family includes abukumalite ((Ca,Th,Ce)5(P04, Si04)3(0H,F)),... 

As mentioned earlier, poly(thioformaldehyde) is a highly crystalline polymer, and it has been shown to have a hexagonal crystal structure (14, 24). Thus, poly-(thioformaldehyde) obtained by irradiation of trithiane followed by heating has a hexagonal unit cell with a = 5.07 A and c=36.52 A crossed by one helical chain parallel to the c axis. The chain has an identity period of 36.52 A that comprises 17 —CH2S— units in 9 turns of the helix (14). Poly(thioformaldehyde) made by other methods crystallizes similarly (24). 

Fig. 6. CaCuj-type hexagonal crystal structure of GdNis.

Fig. 12. NdPtSb-lype hexagonal crystal structure of GdCuSn.

A summary of physical and chemical constants for beryllium is compiled in Table 1 (3—7). One of the more important characteristics of beryllium is its pronounced anisotropy resulting from the close-packed hexagonal crystal structure. This factor must be considered for any property that is known or suspected to be structure sensitive. As an example, the thermal expansion coefficient at 273 K of single-crystal beryllium was measured (8) as 10.6 x 10-6 parallel to the -axis and 7.7 x 10-6 parallel to the t-axis. The actual expansion of polycrystalline metal then becomes a function of the degree of preferred orientation present and the direction of measurement in wrought beryllium. 

Cadmium Sulfide. CdS [1306-23-6] is dimorphic and exists in the sphalerite (cubic) and wurtzite (hexagonal) crystal structures (40). At very high pressures it may exist also as a rock-salt structure type. It is oxidized to the sulfate, basic sulfate, and eventually the oxide on heating in air to 700°C, especially in the presence of moisture (9). 

Corundum is an aluminum oxide that possesses a hexagonal crystal structure, The compound is extremely hard (2000 on the Knoop scale), sp gr 3.95, and is widely used in abrasives and refractories. Corundum is manufactured by fusing alumina or bauxite in an electric arc furnace operated at about SIOO C. 

TELLURIUM. TCAS 13494-80-91. Chemical element, symbol Te, at. no. 52. at. wL 127.60, periodic table group 6, mp 450°C, bp 690°C, density 6.24 g/cm3 (crystalline form at 25°C), 6.00 (amorphous farm at 25°C). Elemental tellurium has a hexagonal crystal structure with trigonal symmetry. Tellurium is a silver-white brittle semi-metal, stable in air, and in boiling H2O, insoluble in HC1, but dissolved by HNOj or aqua regia to form telluric acid. The element is dissolved by NaOH solution and combines with chlorine upon heating to form tellurium tetrachloride. 

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