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Apatite, an Uncommon card
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Apatite quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Apatite card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Apatite is often ______ for other minerals.
Answer
mistaken. Apatite is often mistaken for other minerals. From the Apatite article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Electric power transmission. Electric power transmission 83 · Diplomacy 80 · Gottlob Frege 76 · Apatite 70 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The formula of the admixture of the three most common endmembers is written as Ca1062, and the crystal unit cell formulae of the individual minerals are written as Ca1062, Ca106F2 and Ca106Cl2.
- The mineral was named apatite by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1786, although the specific mineral he had described was reclassified as fluorapatite in 1860 by the German mineralogist Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg.
- Apatite is often mistaken for other minerals.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Apatite article was read about 78,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Apatite
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Apatite (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Spann, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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