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Tantalcarbide

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Tantalcarbide

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Description
Locality: 
Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.05 × 0.05 × 0.05 cm
Description

Several grains of tantalcarbide in capsula. Former "Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz" with inventory no. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tantalcarbide

Formula: 
TaC
Strunz: 
1.BA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Colour: 
Bronze
Type Locality: 
Avrorinskii Placer, Aktai River, Baranchinsky Massif, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...