Diopside R060085 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Diopside R060085

Name: Diopside
RRUFF ID: R060085
Ideal Chemistry: CaMgSi₂O₆
Locality: Tyrol, Austria
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4145 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brownish-green massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060085.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Ca_0.97Na_0.03)_Σ=1(Mg_0.79Fe²⁺_0.10Fe³⁺_0.04Al_0.04Ti_0.02Cr_0.01)_Σ=1(Si_1.90Al_0.10)_Σ=2O₆
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, polished and mounted on a pin.

Pin ID:

M01980

Orientation:

Laser parallel to -b* (0 -1 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060085

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample, 780 spectrum overwhelmed by fluorescence

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R060085.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060085.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.7395(4)Å b: 8.9089(5)Å c: 5.2597(4)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 106.123(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 438.42(3) Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Diopside
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
d’Andrada J B (1800) Der eigenschaften und kennzeichen einiger neuen fossilien aus Schweden und Norwegen nebst einigen chemischen bemerkungen ueber dieselben, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 4, 28-39 [view file]
d’Andrada J B (1801) Description of some new fossils (Old English translation), A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 5, 193-196; 211-213 [view file]
Dana E S (1904) Monoclinic Section. Pyroxene, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Data 1837-1868, Sixth Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 352-371 [view file]
Bannister F A (1932) Proceedings of societies: Mineralogical Society of Great Britian and Ireland, American Mineralogist, 17, 455-455 [view file]
Aleksandrov K S, Ryzhova T V, Belikov B P (1964) The elastic properties of pyroxenes, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 8, 589-591 [view file]
Grubb P L C (1965) An unusual occurrence of diopside and uvarovite near Thetford, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 241-248 [view file]
Clark J R, Appleman D E, Papike J J (1969) Crystal-chemical characterization of clinopyroxenes based on eight new structure refinements, Mineralogical Society of America Special Paper, 2, 31-50 [view file]
Sood M K, Platt R G, Edgar A D (1970) Phase relations in portions of the system diopside-nepheline-kalsilite-silica and their importance in the genesis of alkaline rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 380-394 [view file]
Cameron M, Sueno S, Prewitt C T, Papike J J (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of acmite, diopside, hedenbergite, jadeite, spodumene, and ureyite, American Mineralogist, 58, 594-618 [view file]
LeAnderson P J (1981) Calculation of temperature and X(CO₂) values for tremolite—K–feldspar—diopside—epidote assemblages, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 619-630 [view file]
Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]
Wang X, Greenwood H J (1988) An experimental study of the equilibrium: grossular + clinochlore = 3 diopside + 2 spinel + 4 H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 269-281 [view file]
Cheng W, Greenwood H J (1989) The stability of the assemblage zoisite + diopside, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 657-662 [view file]
Dickinson J E, Scarfe C M (1990) Raman spectroscopic study of glasses on the join diopside-albite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 1037-1043 [link]
Raudsepp M, Hawthorne F C, Turnock A C (1990) Evaluation of the Rietveld method for the characterization of fine-grained products of mineral synthesis: the diopside-hedenbergite join, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 93-109 [view file]
Lüttge A, Metz P (1991) Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction 1 dolomite + 2 quartz = 1 diopside + 2 CO₂ investigated by powder experiments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 803-821 [view file]
Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L, Matsui M (1997) High-temperature Raman spectroscopy and quasi-harmonic lattice dynamic simulation of diopside, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 440-446 [link]
Richet P, Mysen B, Ingrin J (1998) High-temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of diopside and pseudowollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 401-414 [link]
Herd C D K, Peterson R C, Rossman G R (2000) Violet-colored diopside from southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1193-1199 [view file]
Huang E, Chen C H, Huang T, Lin E H, Xu J (2000) Raman spectroscopic characteristics of Mg-Fe-Ca pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 85, 473-479 [view file]
Prencipe M, Tribaudino M, Pavese A, Hoser A, Reehuis M (2000) A single-crystal neutron-diffraction investigation of diopside at 10 K, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 183-189 [view file]
Wang A, Jolliff B L, Haskin L A, Kuebler K E, Viskupic K M (2001) Characterization and comparison of structural and compositional features of planetary quadrilateral pyroxenes by Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 86, 790-806 [view file]
Weng Y H, Presnall D C (2001) The system diopside - forsterite - enstatite at 5.1 GPa: a ternary model for melting of the mantle, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 299-308 [view file]
Chopelas A, Serghiou G (2002) Spectroscopic evidence for pressure-induced phase transitions in diopside, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 29, 403-408 [link]
Nimis P (2002) The pressures and temperatures of formation of diamond based on thermobarometry of chromian diopside inclusions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 871-884 [view file]
Akaogi M, Yano M, Tejima Y, Iijima M, Kojitani H (2004) High-pressure transition of diopside and wollastonite: phase equilibria and thermochemistry of CaMgSi2O6, CaSiO3 and CaSi2O5--CaTiSiO5 system, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 143, 145-156
Thompson R M, Downs R T (2008) The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa, American Mineralogist, 93, 177-186 [view file]
Boffa Ballaran T, Nestola F, Tribaudino M, Ohashi H (2009) Bulk modulus variations along the diopside-kosmochlor solid solution, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 591-597
Buzatu A, Buzgar N (2010) The Raman study of single-chain silicates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 56, 107-125 [view file]

REFERENCES for Diopside

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

d’Andrada J B (1800) Der eigenschaften und kennzeichen einiger neuen fossilien aus Schweden und Norwegen nebst einigen chemischen bemerkungen ueber dieselben, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 4, 28-39 [view file]

d’Andrada J B (1801) Description of some new fossils (Old English translation), A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 5, 193-196; 211-213 [view file]

Dana E S (1904) Monoclinic Section. Pyroxene, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Data 1837-1868, Sixth Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 352-371 [view file]

Bannister F A (1932) Proceedings of societies: Mineralogical Society of Great Britian and Ireland, American Mineralogist, 17, 455-455 [view file]

Aleksandrov K S, Ryzhova T V, Belikov B P (1964) The elastic properties of pyroxenes, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 8, 589-591 [view file]

Grubb P L C (1965) An unusual occurrence of diopside and uvarovite near Thetford, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 241-248 [view file]

Clark J R, Appleman D E, Papike J J (1969) Crystal-chemical characterization of clinopyroxenes based on eight new structure refinements, Mineralogical Society of America Special Paper, 2, 31-50 [view file]

Sood M K, Platt R G, Edgar A D (1970) Phase relations in portions of the system diopside-nepheline-kalsilite-silica and their importance in the genesis of alkaline rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 380-394 [view file]

Cameron M, Sueno S, Prewitt C T, Papike J J (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of acmite, diopside, hedenbergite, jadeite, spodumene, and ureyite, American Mineralogist, 58, 594-618 [view file]

LeAnderson P J (1981) Calculation of temperature and X(CO₂) values for tremolite—K–feldspar—diopside—epidote assemblages, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 619-630 [view file]

Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]

Wang X, Greenwood H J (1988) An experimental study of the equilibrium: grossular + clinochlore = 3 diopside + 2 spinel + 4 H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 269-281 [view file]

Cheng W, Greenwood H J (1989) The stability of the assemblage zoisite + diopside, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 657-662 [view file]

Dickinson J E, Scarfe C M (1990) Raman spectroscopic study of glasses on the join diopside-albite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 1037-1043 [link]

Raudsepp M, Hawthorne F C, Turnock A C (1990) Evaluation of the Rietveld method for the characterization of fine-grained products of mineral synthesis: the diopside-hedenbergite join, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 93-109 [view file]

Lüttge A, Metz P (1991) Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction 1 dolomite + 2 quartz = 1 diopside + 2 CO₂ investigated by powder experiments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 803-821 [view file]

Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L, Matsui M (1997) High-temperature Raman spectroscopy and quasi-harmonic lattice dynamic simulation of diopside, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 440-446 [link]

Richet P, Mysen B, Ingrin J (1998) High-temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of diopside and pseudowollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 401-414 [link]

Herd C D K, Peterson R C, Rossman G R (2000) Violet-colored diopside from southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1193-1199 [view file]

Huang E, Chen C H, Huang T, Lin E H, Xu J (2000) Raman spectroscopic characteristics of Mg-Fe-Ca pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 85, 473-479 [view file]

Prencipe M, Tribaudino M, Pavese A, Hoser A, Reehuis M (2000) A single-crystal neutron-diffraction investigation of diopside at 10 K, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 183-189 [view file]

Wang A, Jolliff B L, Haskin L A, Kuebler K E, Viskupic K M (2001) Characterization and comparison of structural and compositional features of planetary quadrilateral pyroxenes by Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 86, 790-806 [view file]

Weng Y H, Presnall D C (2001) The system diopside - forsterite - enstatite at 5.1 GPa: a ternary model for melting of the mantle, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 299-308 [view file]

Chopelas A, Serghiou G (2002) Spectroscopic evidence for pressure-induced phase transitions in diopside, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 29, 403-408 [link]

Nimis P (2002) The pressures and temperatures of formation of diamond based on thermobarometry of chromian diopside inclusions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 871-884 [view file]

Akaogi M, Yano M, Tejima Y, Iijima M, Kojitani H (2004) High-pressure transition of diopside and wollastonite: phase equilibria and thermochemistry of CaMgSi2O6, CaSiO3 and CaSi2O5--CaTiSiO5 system, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 143, 145-156

Thompson R M, Downs R T (2008) The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa, American Mineralogist, 93, 177-186 [view file]

Boffa Ballaran T, Nestola F, Tribaudino M, Ohashi H (2009) Bulk modulus variations along the diopside-kosmochlor solid solution, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 591-597

Buzatu A, Buzgar N (2010) The Raman study of single-chain silicates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 56, 107-125 [view file]