Senarmontite R060075



Name: Senarmontite
RRUFF ID: R060075
Ideal Chemistry: Sb2O3
Locality: Djebel Haminate mine, Constantine, Algeria
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 9676 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown octahedra
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Arsenolite (4) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060075.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Sb2.00O3
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R060075
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R060075.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060075.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 11.1403(3)Å    b: 11.1403(3)Å    c: 11.1403(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1382.6(1)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Senarmontite

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]

Dana J D (1851) Mineralogical Notices. No. III. 1. New species. Octahedral oxyd of antimony, American Journal of Science and Arts, 12, 205-222   [view file]

de Senarmont H H (1851) Note sur l´antimoine oxydé naturel de forme octaédrique, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 31, 504-507   [view file]

Bozorth R M (1923) The crystal structures of the cubic forms of arsenious and antimonous oxides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 45, 1621-1627   [view file]

Dehlinger U (1927) Über die kristallstruktur der antimonoxyde, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 108-119   [view file]

Mason B, Vitaliano C J (1952) The mineralogy of the antimony oxides and antimonates, Mineralogical Magazine, 30, 100-112   [view file]

Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541

Beattie I R, Livingston K M S, Ozin G A, Reynolds D J (1970) Single-crystal Raman spectra of arsenolite (As4O6) and senarmonite (Sb4O6). The gas-phase Raman spectra pf P4O6, P4O10, and As4O6, Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical, 1970, 449-451

Svensson C (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of cubic antimony trioxide, Sb2O3, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 2016-2018

Zav'yalova A A, Imamov R M (1975) About the structure of the cubic modification of Sb2O3, Soviet Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 1, 1186-1188

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970   [view file]

Whitten AE, Dittrich B, Spackman MA, Turner P, Brown TC (2004) Charge density analysis of two polymorphs of antimony(III) oxide, Dalton Transactions, 2004, 23-29

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864   [view file]

Moseley D H, Bridges C A, Daemen L L, Zhang Q, McGuire M A, Cakmak E, Hermann R P (2023) Structure and anharmonicity of α- and β-Sb2O3 at low temperature, Crystals, 13, 752   [link]   [view file]