Wollastonite-2M R040008


 Name: Wollastonite-2M
RRUFF ID: R040008
Ideal Chemistry: CaSiO3
Locality: Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4220 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless parallel acicular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R040008.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Ca1.00Si1.00O3; trace amounts of Fe and Mn
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R040008
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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: R040008.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R040008.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 15.4141(8)Å    b: 7.317(1)Å    c: 7.0649(5)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 95.389(5)°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 793.3(1)    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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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 Wollastonite-2M

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Bowen N L (1922) Two corrections to new data, American Mineralogist, 7, 64-66   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263   [view file]

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415   [view file]

Henmi C, Kawahara A, Henmi K, Kusachi I, Takéuchi Y (1983) The 3T, 4T and 5T polytypes of wollastonite from Kushiro, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, American Mineralogist, 68, 156-163   [view file]

Hesse K F (1984) Refinement of the crystal structure of wollastonite-2M (parawollastonite), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 168, 93-98   [view file]

Nickel E H (1994) Standardisation of polytype suffixes, Mineralogy and Petrology, 50, issue 4 293-294

Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S (1997) Thermodynamic data for the phases in the CaSiO3 system, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, issue 6 1181-1191

Joswig W, Paulus E F, Winkler B, Milman V (2003) The crystal structure of CaSiO3-walstromite, a special isomorph of wollastonite-II, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 218, 811-818