Irregular - Flat surfaces (not cleavage) fractured in an irregular pattern.
Habit:
Aggregates - Made of numerous individual crystals or clusters.
Habit:
Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix.
Habit:
Water Soluble - Water soluble mineral.
Hardness:
2 - Gypsum
Luster:
Vitreous (Glassy)
Optical Properties of Stepanovite
Dichroism (e):
colorless.
Dichroism (w):
yellowish green.
Gladstone-Dale:
CI meas= -0.574 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC) CI calc= -0.574 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2757,KPDmeas= 0.2757,KC= 0.1752 Ncalc = 1.3
Optical Data:
Uniaxial (-), e=1.417, w=1.515, bire=0.0980.
Calculated Properties of Stepanovite
Electron Density:
Bulk Density (Electron Density)=1.73 gm/cc note: Specific Gravity of Stepanovite =1.69 gm/cc.
Fermion Index:
Fermion Index = 0.0087774735 Boson Index = 0.9912225265
Photoelectric:
PEStepanovite = 3.47 barns/electron U=PEStepanovite x rElectron Density= 6.00 barns/cc.
Radioactivity:
GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) Stepanovite is Not Radioactive