Wassonite

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Wassonite specimen - rock identification

What is Wassonite?

Wassonite is an extremely rare titanium sulfide mineral with chemical formula TiS. Its discovery was announced in a 2011 NASA press release as a single small grain within an enstatite chondrite meteorite called "Yamato 691", which was found during a 1969 Japanese expedition to Antarctica. This grain represents the first observation in nature of the synthetic compound titanium(II) sulfide. The mineral was named after John T. Wasson, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and was approved by the International Mineralogical Association.

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North ZoneCentral RidgeSouth Basin

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Quick Facts

Physical Properties

Density
4.452 g/cm³

Chemical Properties

Chemical Formula
TiS
Elements
S, Ti
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