Chlorargyrite R050360


Name: Chlorargyrite
RRUFF ID: R050360
Ideal Chemistry: AgCl
Locality: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 13643 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellowish-gray colloidal aggregate
Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Rocksalt (18) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050360.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample, Raman peaks are crystallographically forbidden
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050360.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050360.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.62099(9)Å    b: 5.62099(9)Å    c: 5.62099(9)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 177.598(9)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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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 Chlorargyrite

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]

Gesner K (1565) Argentum cornupellucido simile, in De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc. Primum Editi Excudebat Jacobus Gesnerus Tiguri 62-62   [view file]

Beudant F S (1832) Keragyre, 2, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie Chez Verdière Paris 501-501   [view file]

Breithaupt J F A (1841) Cerargyrites chlorus oder Hornsilber, in Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Volume 2 Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 315-317   [view file]

Weisbach A (1875) Chlorargyrit, in Synopsis Mineralogica. Systematische Uebersicht des Mineralreiches J. G. Englehardt’sche Freiberg 37-38   [view file]

Prior G T, Spencer L J (1902) The cerargyrite group (holohedral-cubic silver haloids), Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 174-185   [view file]

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

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

Hull S, Keen D A (1999) Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgCl, AgBr, and AgI, Physical Review B, 59, 750-761