Dioptase R050010

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Name: Dioptase
RRUFF ID: R050010
Ideal Chemistry: CuSiO3·H2O
Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia
Source: Eugene Schlepp
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bluish green single crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050010.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Cu1.00Si1.00O3·H2O ; trace amounts of Mg and Al; OH estimated by difference
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: M00232
Orientation: Laser parallel to  a*  (1 0 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  c   [0 0 1].
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RRUFF ID: R050010
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050010.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050010.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 14.5759(3)Å    b: 14.5759(3)Å    c: 7.7821(2)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 1431.87(6)    Crystal System: hexagonal
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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 Dioptase

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]

Hauy C (1798) Sur la dioptase, Bulletin des Science, par la Société Philomathique, 1798, 101-101   [view file]

Vauquelin L N (1798) De la dioptase de Hauy, émeraudine de delamétherie. Essai dur la dioptase, Observations sur la Physique, sur l’Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts, 46, 301-302   [view file]

Belov N V (1957) New silicate structures, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 757-758

Adams D M, Gardner I R (1974) Single-crystal vibrational spectra of beryl and dioptase, Dalton Transactions, 1974, 1502-1505

Belov N V, Maksimov B A, Nozik Y Z, Muradyan L A (1978) The refinement of the crystal structure of dioptase Cu6(Si6O18)(H2O)6 by the X-ray and neutron diffraction methods, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 239, 842-845

McKeown D A, Kim C C, Bell M I (1995) Vibrational analysis of dioptase Cu6Si6O18·6(H2O) and its puckered six-member ring, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 22, 137-144

Goryainov S V (1996) Dehydration-induced changes in the vibrational states of dioptase, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 37, 58-64