Talk:Amphibole

Wikipedia's way of chemical formulas.
Why does wikipedia have to find the worst way of writing a chemical formula? For example Grunerite Fe7Si8O22(OH)2 - it's composed of Si2O11(-6) so it's rather like Fe7(Si2O11*OH)2 (as well as Fe7(Si2O11/OH)2 or Fe7(Si2O11)2(OH)2, as just to note you can't find anything for (Si8O22) only Si4O11(-6). RSXLV (talk) 09:10, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The empirical formula used in the article matches that in my copy of Deer, Howie & Zussman "The rock forming minerals", and those in both the Webmineral and Mindat webpages - they all use (Si8O22). Mikenorton (talk) 12:14, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Inexpertly, many Amphiboles have the following general chemical composition: (MO)7Q8 W, i.e. composed of Mafic (Fe,Mg,Ca) oxides, Quartz, and Water.66.235.38.214 (talk) 10:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * For comparison to Biotite, the general Amphibole formula may be re-written: (MO Q)7 Q W. Basically, Biotite replaces Q → (K Al O2), and incorporates more than twice as much W. 66.235.38.214 (talk) 09:21, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Noble Gases
according to, amphibole dissolves noble gases into solution -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 08:57, 26 June 2013 (UTC)