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Name: Tainiolite RRUFF ID: R061070 Ideal Chemistry: KLiMg2Si4O10F2 Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Source: Bob Downs [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown hexagonal prism Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ mica (50) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R061070.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.241(1)Å b: 9.049(1)Å c: 10.1471(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 100.064(8)° gamma: 90° Volume: 473.8(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Tainiolite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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Flink G (1901) On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland. 25. Tainiolite, Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 115-120 [view file] |
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Rieder M, Cavazzini G, DYakonov Y S, Frank-Kamenetskii V A, Gottardt G, Guggenheim S, Koval P V, Muller G, Neiva A M R, Radoslovich E W, Robert J L, Sassi F P, Takeda H, Weiss Z, Wones D R (1998) Nomenclature of the micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 905-912 [view file] |
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Armbruster T, Richards R P, Gnos E, Pettke T, Herwegh M (2007) Unusual fibrous sodian tainiolite epitactic on phlogopite from marble xenoliths of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 541-549 [view file] |
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