Fluorapatite R050617 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Fluorapatite R050617

Name: Fluorapatite
RRUFF ID: R050617
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₅(PO₄)₃F
Locality: Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 12013 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Tan colored hexagonal prism
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050617.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_5.00(P_1.00O₄)₃(F_0.99Cl_0.01)

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin

Pin ID:

L00921

Orientation:

Laser parallel to -a* (-1 0 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:

R050617

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050617.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.369(1)Å b: 9.369(1)Å c: 6.8775(8)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 522.84(8) Crystal System: hexagonal

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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REFERENCES for Fluorapatite
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]
Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]
Rammelsberg C F (1860) Apatit, in Handbuch der Mineralchemie Wilhelm Engelmann Leipzig 351-355 [view file]
Schneer C J (1957) Notes and news: a modified Hull-Davey chart for high values of c/a, American Mineralogist, 42, 282-285 [view file]
Dunn P J (1978) Dehrnite and lewistonite: discredited, Mineralogical Magazine, 42, 282-284 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]
Knutson C, Peacor D R, Kelly W C (1985) Luminescence, color and fission track zoning in apatite crystals of the Panasqueira tin-tungsten deposit, Beira-Baixa, Portugal, American Mineralogist, 70, 829-837 [view file]
Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]
Hughes J M, Cameron M, Crowley K D (1990) Crystal structures of natural ternary apatites: Solid solution in the Ca₅(PO₄)₃X (X=F, OH, Cl) system, American Mineralogist, 75, 295-304 [view file]
Nasdala L (1992) A Raman study on the so-called “pseudoapatite” from Halsbrücke near Freiberg/Saxony, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 164, 211-227
Fleet M E, Pan Y (1994) Site preference of Nd in Fluorapatite [Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆F₂], Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 112, 78-81
Perseil E A, Blanc P, Ohnenstetter D (2000) As-bearing fluorapatite in manganiferous deposits from St. Marcel — Praborna, Val d´Aosta, Italy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 101-117 [view file]
Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 106, 1035-1044 [view file]
Pan Y, Fleet M E, Chen N, Weil J A, Nilges M J (2002) Site preference of Gd in synthetic fluorapatite by single-crystal W-band EPR and X-ray refinement of the structure: a comparative study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1103-1112 [view file]
Nikcevic I, Jokanovic V, Mitric M, Nedic Z, Makovec D, Uskokovic D (2004) Mechanochemical synthesis of nanostructured fluorapatite/fluorhydroxyapatite and carbonated fluorapatite/fluorhydroxyapatite, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 2565-2574
Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file]
Fleet M E, Liu X (2008) Accommodation of the carbonate ion in fluorapatite synthesized at high pressure, American Mineralogist, 93, 1460-1469 [view file]
Glass B P, Fries M (2008) Micro-Raman spectroscopic study of fine-grained, shock-metamorphosed rock fragments from the Australasian microtektite layer, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1487-1496 [view file]
McCubbin F M, Mason H E, Park H, Phillips B L, Parise J B, Nekvasil H, Lindsley D H (2008) Synthesis and characterization of low-OH^- fluor-chlorapatite: a single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 93, 210-216 [view file]
Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179

REFERENCES for Fluorapatite

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]

Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]

Rammelsberg C F (1860) Apatit, in Handbuch der Mineralchemie Wilhelm Engelmann Leipzig 351-355 [view file]

Schneer C J (1957) Notes and news: a modified Hull-Davey chart for high values of c/a, American Mineralogist, 42, 282-285 [view file]

Dunn P J (1978) Dehrnite and lewistonite: discredited, Mineralogical Magazine, 42, 282-284 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]

Knutson C, Peacor D R, Kelly W C (1985) Luminescence, color and fission track zoning in apatite crystals of the Panasqueira tin-tungsten deposit, Beira-Baixa, Portugal, American Mineralogist, 70, 829-837 [view file]

Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]

Hughes J M, Cameron M, Crowley K D (1990) Crystal structures of natural ternary apatites: Solid solution in the Ca₅(PO₄)₃X (X=F, OH, Cl) system, American Mineralogist, 75, 295-304 [view file]

Nasdala L (1992) A Raman study on the so-called “pseudoapatite” from Halsbrücke near Freiberg/Saxony, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 164, 211-227

Fleet M E, Pan Y (1994) Site preference of Nd in Fluorapatite [Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆F₂], Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 112, 78-81

Perseil E A, Blanc P, Ohnenstetter D (2000) As-bearing fluorapatite in manganiferous deposits from St. Marcel — Praborna, Val d´Aosta, Italy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 101-117 [view file]

Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 106, 1035-1044 [view file]

Pan Y, Fleet M E, Chen N, Weil J A, Nilges M J (2002) Site preference of Gd in synthetic fluorapatite by single-crystal W-band EPR and X-ray refinement of the structure: a comparative study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1103-1112 [view file]

Nikcevic I, Jokanovic V, Mitric M, Nedic Z, Makovec D, Uskokovic D (2004) Mechanochemical synthesis of nanostructured fluorapatite/fluorhydroxyapatite and carbonated fluorapatite/fluorhydroxyapatite, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 2565-2574

Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file]

Fleet M E, Liu X (2008) Accommodation of the carbonate ion in fluorapatite synthesized at high pressure, American Mineralogist, 93, 1460-1469 [view file]

Glass B P, Fries M (2008) Micro-Raman spectroscopic study of fine-grained, shock-metamorphosed rock fragments from the Australasian microtektite layer, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1487-1496 [view file]

McCubbin F M, Mason H E, Park H, Phillips B L, Parise J B, Nekvasil H, Lindsley D H (2008) Synthesis and characterization of low-OH^- fluor-chlorapatite: a single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 93, 210-216 [view file]

Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179