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Mineral contains: whewellite
Echigo T, Kimata M (2010) Crystal chemistry and genesis of organic minerals: A review of oxalate and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon minerals. The Canadian Mineralogist 48, 1329-1358
Echigo T, Kimata M, Kyono A, Shimizu M, Hatta T (2005) Re-investigation of the crystal structure of whewellite [Ca(C2O4)·H2O] and the dehydration mechanism of caoxite [Ca(C2O4)·3H2O]. Mineralogical Magazine 69, 77-88
Frondel C, Prien E L (1942) Carbonate-apatite and hydroxyl-apatite in urinary calculi. Science 95, 431-431
Frost R L, Weier M L (2003) Raman spectroscopy of natural oxalates at 298 and 77 K. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 34, 776-785
Hernanz A, Gavira-Vallejo J M, Ruiz-Lopez J F (2007) Calcium oxalates and prehistoric paintings. The usefulness of these biominerals. Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 9, 512-521
International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names. Mineralogical Magazine 36, 131-136
Phillips W, Brooke H J, Miller W H (1852) Whewellite. in An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans (London) 523-524
Piilonen P C, Ercit T S (2005) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 90, 1466-1469
Piro O E, Baran E J (2018) Crystal chemistry of organic minerals-salts of organic acids: the synthetic approach. Crystallography Reviews 24, 149-175
Shippey T A (1980) Vibrational studies of calcium oxalate monohydrate (whewellite) and an anhydrous phase of calcium oxalate. Journal of Molecular Structure 63, 157-166
Sturm E V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O, Vlasov D, Zelenskaya M, Sazanova K, Rusakov A, Kniep R (2015) Crystallization of calcium oxalate hydrates by interaction of calcite marble with fungus aspergillus niger. American Mineralogist 100, 2559-2565
Tazzoli V, Domeneghetti C (1980) The crystal structures of whewellite and weddellite: re-examination and comparison. American Mineralogist 65, 327-334
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