U+1F738 Alchemical Symbol for Marcasite
U+1F738 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as iron pyrite and iron sulfide.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F738 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The mineral marcasite, sometimes called "white iron pyrite", is iron sulfide (FeS2) with orthorhombic crystal structure. It is physically and crystallographically distinct from pyrite, which is iron sulfide with cubic crystal structure. Both structures contain the disulfide S22β ion, having a short bonding distance between the sulfur atoms. The structures differ in how these di-anions are arranged around the Fe2+ cations. Marcasite is lighter and more brittle than pyrite. Specimens of marcasite often crumble and break up due to the unstable crystal structure.
On fresh surfaces, it is pale yellow to almost white and has a bright metallic luster. It tarnishes to a yellowish or brownish color and gives a black streak. It is a brittle material that cannot be scratched with a knife. The thin, flat, tabular crystals, when joined in groups, are called "cockscombs".
In marcasite jewellery, pyrite used as a gemstone is called "marcasite" β that is, marcasite jewellery is made from pyrite, not from the mineral marcasite. Marcasite in the scientific sense is not used as a gem due to its brittleness. In the late medieval and early modern eras, the word "marcasite" meant all iron sulfides in general, including both pyrite and the mineral marcasite. The narrower, modern scientific definition for marcasite as orthorhombic iron sulfide dates from 1845. The jewelers' sense for the word "marcasite" pre-dates this 1845 scientific redefinition.
Representations
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NΒΊ | 128824 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 9C B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 38 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 38 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9C%B8 |
HTML hex reference | 🜸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΕΒΈ |
alias | iron pyrite |
alias | iron sulfide |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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