Category Sulfide mineral Crystal system Trigonal | Formula(repeating unit) TiS Space group R3m | |
Crystal class Hexagonal scalenohedral (3m)H-M symbol: (3 2/m) | ||
Wassonite is an extremely rare 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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