Murmanite R060886
Name: Murmanite
RRUFF ID: R060886
Ideal Chemistry: Na2Ti2(Si2O7)O2·2H2O
Locality: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Lilac lamellar aggregate
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060886.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060886.1
Sample Description: Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal work
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.368(4)Å    b: 7.100(5)Å    c: 12.216(9)Å
alpha: 92.65(3)°    beta: 107.42(3)°    gamma: 90.19(3)°   Volume: 443.7(6)    Crystal System: triclinic
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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 Murmanite

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]

Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1413-1421   [view file]

Khalilov A D, Mamedov K S, Makarov E S, Pyanzina L A (1965) Crystal structure of murmanite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 161, 1409-1411

Rastsvetaeva R K, Andrianov V I (1986) New data on the crystal structure of murmanite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 31, 44-48

Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Ercit T S, Grice J D, Grew E S (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 927-935   [view file]

Khalilov A D (1989) Refinement of the crystal structure of murmanite and new data on its crystal-chemical characteristics, Mineralogiceskij Zhurnal, 11, 19-27

Nèmeth P, Ferraris G, Radnóczi G, Ageeva O A (2005) TEM and X-ray study of syntactic intergrowths of epistolite, murmanite and shkatulkalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 973-987   [view file]

Locock A J, Piilonen P C, Ercit T S, Rowe R (2006) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 91, 216-224   [view file]

Sokolova E (2006) From structure topology to chemical composition. I. Structural hierarchy and stereochemistry in titanium disilicate minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1273-1330   [view file]

Cámara F, Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C, Abdu Y (2008) From structure topology to chemical composition. IX. Titanium silicates: revision of the crystal chemistry of lomonosovite and murmanite, Group-IV minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 1207-1228