Chemical formula: (Zn,Fe)S
Family: Sulfide
Status: IMA-GP
Crystal system : Isometric
Display mineral: OUI
Associated names (luminescent varieties, discredited names, synonyms, etc.): brunckite, cleiophane, schalenblende, blende,
Longwave UV (365nm) colors: |
Orange , Pale Yellow , Yellow , Orangy yellow , Greenish Yellow , Yellowish , | ||
Intensity LW:Strong | |||
Midwave UV (320nm) colors: |
Orange , Pale Yellow , Yellow , Orangy yellow , Greenish Yellow , Yellowish , | ||
Intensity MW:Strong | |||
Shortwave UV (254nm) colors: |
Orange , Pale Yellow , Yellow , Orangy yellow , Greenish Yellow , Yellowish , | ||
Intensity SW:Medium |
Daylight picture
SPHALERITE;
Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
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Longwave (365nm) picture
SPHALERITE;
Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
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Shortwave (254nm) picture
SPHALERITE;
Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
UVSW, Photo and Copyright:
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Type d'UV |
Couleur |
Intensité |
Fréquence d'observation |
---|---|---|---|
UV longs (365nm): | Pale Yellow | UV moyens (320 nm): | Pale Yellow | UV courts (254 nm): | Pale Yellow |
Triboluminescence: OUI
Thermoluminescence: OUI
synonyme: blende ; brunckite = colloïdal sphalerite ; variety cleiophane: orange SW and LW;
Activator(s): Mn2+ , Cu+,
Peaks in the spectrum (nm):
Mn2+ replacing Zn2+ : large band peaking at 595 nm VZn-Cl- : 450-460-470nm Cu+-Ga3+, Cu+-In3+ repl Zn2+ : 640-670-675nm
No spectrum yet
Ed. Becqurel studied the decay of the phosphorescence of the different component (bands) of the spectrum of ZnS, proposing a number of mathemetical expression to interpret this phenomenon (1860). One of the oldest studies on activator in zinc sulphide was made by H. Grune (1904). He noted that a small amont of manganese in ZnS produced an orange luminescence and triboluminescence in a very similar way as the natural mineral. Jorrissen and Ringe (1904) also studied zinc sulfide fluorescence. The influence of the irradiation by a red light and infrared radiations upon the photoluminescence has been studied by C. Peirce (1906) under a variety of conditions. Nichols found the presence of 48 bands/peaks in the spectrum coinciding in part with thallium, Erbium, Ytterbium. [after De Ment, 1949]
(*)The data are not exhaustive and are limited to a few remarkable localities for fluorescence
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