Material Index for the Spectroscopy Database

Material Index

Name	Formula	Classifications	Members	Image	Specimens	Lines	Spectra	Techniques	Tags
Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	Minerals containing OH, Minerals containing SO4	—	Brochantite Acicular crystals of pretty blue-green brochantite from Bingham, New Mexico, USA. Size: 2.7 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm. Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0	1	0	0	—	Mineral, Sulphate , Hydroxide
Bromargyrite	AgBr	—	—		0	1	0	IR	Mineral, Halide
Bromellite	BeO	—	—	Bromellite Agregate of large cm-size transparent, colourless and slightly yellowish crystals of bromellite cemented by white, granular, sugar-like phenakite masse and surrounded by crust of olive-green chrysoberyl. From the Malyshevskoe deposit, Izumrudnye Kopi area Photo by Pavel M. Kartashov (via Wikimedia Commons), CC-BY-SA 3.0	0	2	0	PL/XL	Mineral, Simple oxide
Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	Minerals containing OH, Brucite (group)	—	Brucite Brucite specimen from Palabora mine, Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Size: 4.6 x 4.4 x 2.3 cm. Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0	0	5	0	CL, PL, PL/XL	Mineral, Hydroxide
Burbankite	(Na,Ca)₃(Sr,Ba,Ce)₃(CO₃)₅	Minerals containing CO3	—	Burbankite Light pink crystal of Burbankite from Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil Photo by Leon Hupperichs, CC-SA-3.0	0	5	0	PL, PL/XL	Carbonate , Mineral , REE
Bytownite	(Ca,Na)(Si,Al)₄O₈	Plagioclase	—	Bytownite Modified marquise cut anorthite (var. bytownite) specimen from Idaho, USA Unknown photographer, via Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History	3	2	1	EDS	Aluminosilicate , Variety
Böhmite	AlO(OH)	Minerals containing OH	—	Böhmite Böhmite crystals on natrolite, from Sagåsen (Strandåsen), Mørje, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway Photo by Leon Hupperichs, CC-BY-SA 3.0	0	1	0	PL/Laser	Mineral, Hydroxide
Cadmium	Cd	—	—	Cadmium Silvery-gray elemental cadmium (C) 2024 James St. John (via Wikimedia Commons). CC-BY-2.0	1	13	2	SXES	Mineral , Metal , Element
Cadmium selenide	CdSe	—	Cadmoselite	Cadmium selenide Cadmium selenide Photo by W. Oelen, http://woelen.homescience.net/science/index.html, CC-BY-SA 3.0	0	5	0	CL/SEM	Compound, Synthetic
Cadmium silicon selenide	Cd₄SiSe₆	—	—		0	2	0	CL/SEM	Compound, Synthetic
Cadmium silicon sulphide	Cd₄SiS₆	—	—		0	4	0	CL/SEM	Sulphide , Synthetic , Compound
Cadmium sulphide	CdS	—	Hawleyite, Greenockite	Cadmium sulphide Cadmium sulphide Photo by W. Oelen, http://woelen.homescience.net/science/index.html, CC-BY-SA 3.0	1	7	1	SXES	Sulphide , Compound
Cadmium telluride	CdTe	—	—	Cadmium telluride Image of Cadmium telluride 2009 Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de, CC-BY-SA-3.0	0	6	0	CL/SEM	Compound, Synthetic
Calciborite	CaB₂O₄	—	—	Calciborite White crystals of calciborite from the type locality, Novofrolovskoye Deposit, Turjinsk, Turya River, Krasnotur'insk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation Photo by David Hospital (on wikimedia.org), CC-BY-SA 4.0	0	1	0	PL/XL	Mineral, Borate
Calcite	CaCO₃, (Ca,Mg)CO₃	Calcium carbonate, Minerals containing CO3, Calcite (group)	Manganocalcite, Plumbocalcite, Iceland spar	Calcite Photograph of calcite with duftite (NMNH 166935) from the National Mineral Collection Phot by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. CC0	59	84	5	CL, PL/Laser, SXES	Carbonate , Mineral