Quenstedtite is an uncommon iron sulfate mineral with formula Fe₂(SO₄)₃·10H₂0. Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26 It forms violet or white triclinic crystals. In Crystallography, the triclinic Crystal system is one of the 7 lattice Point groups A crystal system is described by three basis vectors It and has been found at a couple of localities in Chile. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the It was named by G. Linck in 1889 after the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt. Friedrich August von Quenstedt ( July 10, 1809 &ndash December 21, 1889) was a German Geologist and Palaeontologist

References

• Webmineral data
• Mindat.org
• Handbook of Mineralogy

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