Phosphate mineral
Nickel–Strunz 9 ed mineral class number 8 (isolated tetrahedral units, mainly) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Phosphate minerals are minerals that contain the tetrahedrally coordinated phosphate (PO43−) anion, sometimes with arsenate (AsO43−) and vanadate (VO43−) substitutions, along with chloride (Cl−), fluoride (F−), and hydroxide (OH−) anions, that also fit into the crystal structure.
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The phosphate class of minerals is a large and diverse group, however, only a few species are relatively common.