Laurite

Laurite
General
Category	Sulfide mineral
Formula; (repeating unit)	RuS2
Strunz classification	2.EB.05a
Crystal system	Cubic
Crystal class	Diploidal (m3) ; H-M symbol: (P 2/m 3)
Space group	Pa3
Unit cell	a = 5.61 Å; Z = 4
Structure
	; Crystal structure of Laurite; S Ru
Identification
Color	Iron-black; white to gray or bluish in polished section
Crystal habit	As octahedral, cubic, and pyritohedral crystals or as rounded grains and inclusions
Cleavage	Perfect on {111}
Fracture	Subconchoidal
Tenacity	Brittle
Mohs scale hardness	7.5
\|re\|er}}	Metallic
Streak	Dark gray
Diaphaneity	Opaque
Specific gravity	6.43
Density	6.43 g/cm3 (Measured) 6.39 g/cm3 (Calculated)
Optical properties	Isotropic and opaque
References

Laurite is an opaque black, metallic ruthenium sulfide mineral with formula: RuS₂. It crystallizes in the isometric system. It is in the pyrite structural group. Though it's been found in many localities worldwide, it is extremely rare.

Laurite has a Mohs hardness of 7.5 and a specific gravity of 6.43. It can contain osmium, rhodium, iridium, and iron substituting for the ruthenium.^[2] The sulfur is present as the disulfide ion, S2−
2, so the ruthenium is in the Ru(II) oxidation state.^[4]

Discovery and occurrence

It was discovered in 1866 in Borneo, Malaysia and named for Laurie, the wife of Charles A. Joy, an American chemist.^[2] It occurs in ultramafic magmatic cumulate deposits and sedimentary placer deposits derived from them. It occurs associated with cooperite, braggite, sperrylite, other minerals of the platinum group elements and chromite.^[1]

Synthetic RuS₂ is a highly active catalyst for hydrodesulfurization.^[5]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Anthony, John W.; Bideaux, Richard A.; Bladh, Kenneth W.; Nichols, Monte C. (2005). "Laurite". Mineral Data Publishing. http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/laurite.pdf.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Laurite, MinDat.org, http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=2344
↑ "Laurite Mineral Data". http://www.webmineral.com/data/Laurite.shtml.
↑ Cocco, R.A.; Tatarchuk, B.J. (1989). "Effects of presulfidization on the selectivity and surface structure of ruthenium catalysts". Langmuir 5 (6): 1309–1315. doi:10.1021/la00090a005. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la00090a005. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
↑ Chianelli, R. R.; Berhault, G.; Raybaud, P.; Kasztelan, S.; Hafner, J.; Toulhoat, H. (2002). "Periodic Trends in Hydrodesulfurization: in Support of the Sabatier Principle". Appl. Catal., A 227 (1–2): 83–96. doi:10.1016/S0926-860X(01)00924-3.

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[HBM-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Anthony, John W.; Bideaux, Richard A.; Bladh, Kenneth W.; Nichols, Monte C. (2005). "Laurite". Mineral Data Publishing. http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/laurite.pdf.

[Mindat-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Laurite, MinDat.org, http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=2344

[Webmin-3] "Laurite Mineral Data". http://www.webmineral.com/data/Laurite.shtml.

[4] Cocco, R.A.; Tatarchuk, B.J. (1989). "Effects of presulfidization on the selectivity and surface structure of ruthenium catalysts". Langmuir 5 (6): 1309–1315. doi:10.1021/la00090a005. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la00090a005. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

[5] Chianelli, R. R.; Berhault, G.; Raybaud, P.; Kasztelan, S.; Hafner, J.; Toulhoat, H. (2002). "Periodic Trends in Hydrodesulfurization: in Support of the Sabatier Principle". Appl. Catal., A 227 (1–2): 83–96. doi:10.1016/S0926-860X(01)00924-3.

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Laurite

Topic: Chemistry

Discovery and occurrence

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