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On maucherite (nickel-speiss, placodine, temiskamite) (With Plate XXIV.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

M. A. Peacock
M. A. Peacock*
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University of Toronto
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Nickel-Speiss (Nickelspeise), an impure arsenide of nickel obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of smalt, has long been known as a source of distinct crystals representing a definite chemical compound. Such crystals were already analysed by Döbereiner (1823), who concluded that the material was an artificial form of niccolite, NiAS. Later analyses showed that the composition of the crystallized furnace product approaches Ni3As2, a compound unknown in nature at that time.

A substance corresponding to the crystallized nickel-speiss, but thought to be of natural origin, was first described by Breithaupt (1841), who named the material Plakodin (πλăκώδης, broad) in allusion to the tabular habit of the crystals. These were said to have occurred in the Jungfer mine at Müsen in Westphalia, associated with chalybite and gersdorffite and to have been salved by a smalt-works official from a shipment of ores.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 169 , June 1940 , pp. 557 - 572
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1940

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