Formula : LiF
System: cubic Hardness:4½ Rarity:very rare
Strunz id:III/A.2-05 -
HALOGENIDES
Name origin: Named in honor of Joel Denison Grice (B. 1946), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer, former Curator of Minerals, Canadian Museum of Nature (former National Museum of Natural Sciences), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Grice is a world-renowned specialist in the structures of borates, carbonates, beryllium minerals and the eudialyte group.
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