cinnabar

mercury sulfide mineral
ChemicalSubstance mineral_species Q104614
cinnabar
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cinnabar

Summary

cinnabar is a mineral species[1]. cinnabar ranks in the top 0.42% of mineral_species entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,519 views/month, #6 of 1,431).[2]

Key Facts

  • cinnabar's image is recorded as Cinnabar.jpg[3].
  • cinnabar's instance of is recorded as mineral species[4].
  • cinnabar's GND ID is recorded as 4841719-1[5].
  • cinnabar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85026031[6].
  • cinnabar's chemical formula is recorded as HgS[7].
  • cinnabar's subclass of is recorded as cinnabar mineral group[8].
  • cinnabar's subclass of is recorded as sulfide class of minerals[9].
  • cinnabar's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572345[10].
  • cinnabar's Commons category is recorded as Cinnabar[11].
  • cinnabar's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 32560[12].
  • cinnabar's has part is recorded as mercury(II) sulfide[13].
  • cinnabar's crystal system is recorded as trigonal crystal system[14].
  • cinnabar's IMA status and/or rank is recorded as grandfathered mineral (G)[15].
  • cinnabar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f0b7[16].
  • cinnabar's Strunz 8th edition is recorded as II/B.14[17].
  • cinnabar's Nickel-Strunz 9th edition is recorded as 2.CD.15a[18].
  • cinnabar's Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of is recorded as 2.CD.15a[19].
  • cinnabar's Dana 8th edition is recorded as 2.8.14.1[20].
  • cinnabar's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300311452[21].
  • cinnabar's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 549.32[22].
  • cinnabar's Mohs' hardness is recorded as {'amount': '+2.3'}[23].
  • cinnabar's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0090548[24].
  • cinnabar's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[25].
  • cinnabar's described by source is recorded as On Stones[26].
  • cinnabar's described by source is recorded as Meteorology[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for cinnabar include minium[28], a mineral species[29] and metacinnabar[30], a mineral species[31].

Why It Matters

cinnabar ranks in the top 0.42% of mineral_species entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,519 views/month, #6 of 1,431).[2] cinnabar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] cinnabar is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for cinnabar include minium[28], a mineral species[29] and metacinnabar[30], a mineral species[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . The IMA List of Minerals (September 2019). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . IMA/CNMNC List of Mineral Names (March 2007). wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Mineralogische Tabellen : Eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage, mit einer Einfuhrung in die Kristallchemie (1982). wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q15221937. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . mineralienatlas.de. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . rruff. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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