Minerals composed of a metal cation bonded to oxygen, following the Nickel-Strunz oxide and hydroxide class. Includes corundum, an aluminium oxide, and the two iron oxides magnetite and hematite, both principal ore minerals of banded iron formations. Belongs here: any mineral whose defining bond is a metal-oxygen structure with no complex anion group such as carbonate, sulfate or phosphate standing between the metal and the oxygen. Does not belong here: a carbonate mineral such as calcite, whose oxygen sits inside a carbonate ion rather than bonded straight to the metal.
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Formation OriginThe oxide anion (O2-) bonded to one or more metals. 1 Browse By
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Entity-backed identity for the material classification this material already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the material classification this material already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the material classification this material already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the material classification this material already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the material classification this material already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: Oxide minerals
WikipediaOxide minerals, lead sectionQuote, Oxide minerals, lead section
The oxide mineral class includes those minerals in which the oxide anion (O2-) is bonded to one or more metal alloys.
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