Leucosphenite - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Leucosphenite R060201

Name: Leucosphenite
RRUFF ID: R060201
Ideal Chemistry: Na₄BaTi₂B₂Si₁₀O₃₀
Locality: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M41878 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bluish-green prismatic crystal associated with small colorless albite crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060201.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Ba_0.91◻_0.09)_Σ=1(Na_3.84K_0.16)_Σ=4(Ti_1.77Nb⁵⁺_0.18Zr_0.05)_Σ=2B_2.00Si_10.00O₃₀ ; B not measured but estimated by difference and charge balance

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060201

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060201.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.801(1)Å b: 16.971(3)Å c: 7.253(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 93.243(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1204.6(7)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Leucosphenite
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]
Flink G (1901) On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland (complete article), Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 9-180 [view file]
Flink G (1901) On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland. 28. Leucosphenite, Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 137-146 [view file]
Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na₂O·B₂O₃·6SiO₂) and eitelite (Na₂O·MgO·2CO₂) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327 [view file]
Shumyatskaya N G, Voronkov A A, Belov N V (1971) X-ray diffraction study of leucosphenite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 16, 416-422 [view file]
Chao G Y, Watkinson D H (1972) Leucosphenite from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 851-860 [view file]
Pabst A, Milton C (1972) Leucosphenite, and its occurrence in the Green River Formation of Utah and Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 57, 1801-1822 [view file]
Malinovskii Y A, Yamnova N A, Belov N V (1981) The refined crystal structure of the leucosphenite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 257, 1128-1132 [view file]
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]

REFERENCES for Leucosphenite

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]

Flink G (1901) On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland (complete article), Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 9-180 [view file]

Flink G (1901) On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland. 28. Leucosphenite, Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 137-146 [view file]

Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na₂O·B₂O₃·6SiO₂) and eitelite (Na₂O·MgO·2CO₂) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327 [view file]

Shumyatskaya N G, Voronkov A A, Belov N V (1971) X-ray diffraction study of leucosphenite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 16, 416-422 [view file]

Chao G Y, Watkinson D H (1972) Leucosphenite from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 851-860 [view file]

Pabst A, Milton C (1972) Leucosphenite, and its occurrence in the Green River Formation of Utah and Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 57, 1801-1822 [view file]

Malinovskii Y A, Yamnova N A, Belov N V (1981) The refined crystal structure of the leucosphenite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 257, 1128-1132 [view file]

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]