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Mineral contains: Magnesite
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Boulard E, Guyot F, Fiquet G (2012) The influence on Fe content on Raman spectra and unit cell parameters of magnesite-siderite solid solutions. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 39, 239-246
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Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Zhang M (2007) An infrared investigation of the otavite-magnesite solid solution. American Mineralogist 92, 837-843
Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates MIICO3 in the 1100-1000 cm-1 region: observation of the v1 mode of the isotopic (C16O218O)2- ion. Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 47, 1745-1750
Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcite type carbonates. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 156, 233-243
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Liang W, Li Z, Yin Y, Li R, Chen L, He Y, Dong H, Dai L, Li H (2018) Single crystal growth, characterization and high-pressure Raman spectroscopy of impurity-free magnesite (MgCO3). Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 45, 423-434
Lin J-F, Liu J, Jacobs C, Prakapenka V B (2012) Vibrational and elastic properties of ferromagnesite across the electronic spin-pairing transition of iron. American Mineralogist 97, 583-591
Litasov K D, Fei Y, Ohtani E, Kuribayashi T, Funakoshi K (2008) Thermal equation of state of magnesite to 32 GPa and 2073 K. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors 168, 191-203
Müller J, Efthimiopoulos I, Jahn S, Koch-Müller M (2017) Effect of temperature on the pressure-induced spin transition in siderite and iron-bearing magnesite: a Raman spectroscopy study. European Journal of Mineralogy 29, 785-793
Merlini M, Sapelli F, Fumagalli P, Gatta G D, Lotti P, Tumiati S, Abdellatief M, Lausi A, Plaisier J, Hanfland M, Crichton W, Chantel J, Guignard J, Meneghini C, Pavese A, Poli S (2016) High-temperature and high-pressure behavior of carbonates in the ternary diagram CaCO3-MgCO3-FeCO3. American Mineralogist 101, 1423-1430
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Wang M, Shi G, Qin J, Bai Q (2018) Thermal behaviour of calcite-structure carbonates: a powder X-ray diffraction study between 83 and 618 K. European Journal of Mineralogy 30, 939-949
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Zhang J, Martinez I, Guyot F, Gillet P, Saxena S K (1997) X-ray diffraction study of magnesite at high pressure and high temperature. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 24, 122-130
Zhao C, Lv C, Xu L, Liang L, Liu J (2021) Raman signatures of the distortion and stability of MgCO3 to 75 GPa. American Mineralogist 106, 367-373
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