{{Short description|Phosphide mineral}} {{infobox mineral | name = Allabogdanite | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | category = Phosphide mineral | formula = {{chem2|(Fe,Ni)2P}} |IMAsymbol=Abg<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}}</ref> | molweight = | strunz = 1.BD.15 | dana = | system = Orthorhombic | class = Dipyramidal (mmm) <br/>H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m) | symmetry = ''Pnma'' | unit cell = a = 5.748, b = 3.548 <br/>c = 6.661 [Å]; Z = 4 | color = Light straw-yellow | colour = | habit = Minute exolution laminae in plessite | twinning = | cleavage = | fracture = | tenacity = Brittle | mohs = 5–6 | luster = Metallic | streak = | diaphaneity = Opaque | gravity = 7.11 | density = | polish = | opticalprop = | refractive = | birefringence = | pleochroism = | 2V = | dispersion = | extinction = | length fast/slow = | fluorescence = | absorption = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | impurities = | alteration = | references = <ref name=Mindat>[http://www.mindat.org/min-11008.html Mindat]</ref><ref name=Webmin>[http://www.webmineral.com/data/Allabogdanite.shtml Webmineral data]</ref><ref name=Britvin2021>{{cite journal | doi = 10.2138/am-2021-7621 | title = Discovery of terrestrial allabogdanite (Fe,Ni)<sub>2</sub>P, and the effect of Ni and Mo substitution on the barringerite-allabogdanite high-pressure transition | year = 2021 | last1 = Britvin | first1 = Sergey N. | last2 = Vereshchagin | first2 = Oleg S. | last3 = Shilovskikh | first3 = Vladimir V. | last4 = Krzhizhanovskaya | first4 = Maria G. | last5 = Gorelova | first5 = Liudmila A. | last6 = Vlasenko | first6 = Natalia S. | last7 = Pakhomova | first7 = Anna S. | last8 = Zaitsev | first8 = Anatoly N. | last9 = Zolotarev | first9 = Andrey A. | last10 = Bykov | first10 = Maxim | last11 = Lozhkin | first11 = Maksim S. | last12 = Nestola | first12 = Fabrizio | journal = American Mineralogist | volume = 106 | issue = 6 | pages = 944–952 | bibcode = 2021AmMin.106..944B | s2cid = 226434207 | url = https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449035 }}</ref> }} '''Allabogdanite''' is a very rare phosphide mineral with the chemical formula {{chem2|(Fe,Ni)2P}}, found in 1994 in a meteorite.<ref name=Mindat/><ref name = Britvin2002>{{cite journal | doi = 10.2138/am-2002-8-924| title = Allabogdanite, (Fe,Ni)<sub>2</sub>P, a new mineral from the Onello meteorite: The occurrence and crystal structure| year = 2002| last1 = Britvin| first1 = Sergey N.| last2 = Rudashevsky| first2 = Nikolay S.| last3 = Krivovichev| first3 = Sergey V.| last4 = Burns| first4 = Peter C.| last5 = Polekhovsky| first5 = Yury S.| journal = American Mineralogist| volume = 87| issue = 8–9| pages = 1245–1249| bibcode = 2002AmMin..87.1245B| s2cid = 99564642}}</ref> It was described for an occurrence in the Onello meteorite in the Onello River basin, Sakha Republic; Yakutia, Russia; associated with taenite, schreibersite, kamacite, graphite and awaruite.<ref name=Mindat/> It was named for Russian geologist Alla Bogdanova.<ref name=Webmin/>
In a June 2021 study, scientists reported the discovery of terrestrial allabogdanite in a sedimentary formation. It is located in the Negev desert of Israel, just southwest of the Dead Sea.<ref name=Britvin2021/>
==See also== *Glossary of meteoritics *List of minerals *List of minerals named after people
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