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brucite [′brü‚sīt]

(mineralogy)

Mg(OH)₂A hexagonal mineral; native magnesium hydroxide that appears gray and occurs in serpentines and impure limestones; hardness is 2.5 on Mohs scale, and specific gravity is 2.38-2.40.

Brucite

(named after the American mineralogist A. Bruce, died 1818), a mineral of the hydroxide group; chemical composition, Mg(OH)₂. The magnesium may be partially replaced by Fe²⁺ or Mn²⁺ (ferroand manganobrucites). Brucite crystallizes in a trigonous system and consists of colorless or white (rarely bluish) mica-like crystals, or masses of them, with a layered structure, or sometimes fine-fibered (so-called nemalite) or dense, sinter-like aggregates. Its hardness on the mineralogical scale is 2.5; its density, 2,370-2,400 kg/m³. Formed during hydrothermal changes in ultrabasic magnesial rocks and metamorphosis of dolomites, brucite is found with asbestos in veins of serpentine dunites or peridotites. It may be used as a magnesium ore. In the USSR deposits of brucite have been discovered in massifs of serpentinites and metamorphosed dolomites in the Urals, the Caucasus, and Siberia. Abroad the best known deposits are in the USA, Canada, Italy, and Yugoslavia.

G. P. BARSANOV

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The present brucite market for flame-retardants is less than 50 000 tonnes annually, but it is increasing exponentially.

Brucite--Industrial Mineral with a future by Simandl, George J.; Paradis, Suzanne; Irvine, Melanie / Geoscience Canada

Here he foregrounds it, beginning with the geological occurrences of magnesite and brucite, then looking at the processing of magnesite to the end product magnesium oxide.

The chemistry and technology of magnesia by SciTech Book News

2) For exposure times beyond 500 hr, brucite [Mg(OH)[.

Mg-rich coatings: a new paradigm for Cr-free corrosion protection of ... by Bierwagen, Gordon P. / JCT Research

Bruce Charles Heezen

Bruce of Melbourne, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount

Bruce Peninsula National Park

Bruce, James, 8th earl of Elgin