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|   | Name: Sogdianite RRUFF ID: R050648 Ideal Chemistry: KZr2Li3Si12O30 Locality: Dara-i-Pioz, Tadjikistan Source: Dmitri Belakyovski Owner: RRUFF Description: Purple tabular fragment, used in the Geiger & Grodzicki (2012) study Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | |
| Mineral Group: [ Milarite (18) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R050648.1 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 10.0439(4)Å    b: 10.0439(4)Å    c: 14.2089(4)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 1241.3(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | |||||||
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| REFERENCES for Sogdianite | |
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| 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] | |
| Dusmatov V D, Efimov A F, Kataeva Z T, Khoroshilova L A, Yanulov K P (1968) Sogdianite - a new mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 182, 1176-1177 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 1218-1223 [view file] | |
| International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 1909-1914 [view file] | |
| Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C, Grew E S (1999) The crystal chemistry of sogdianite, a milarite-group mineral, American Mineralogist, 84, 764-768 [view file] | |
| Sokolova E V, Hawthorne F C, Pautov L A (2000) The crystal chemistry of Li-bearing minerals with the milarite-type structure: the crystal structure of end-member sogdianite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 853-859 [view file] | |
| Geiger C A, Grodzicki M (2012) A 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopic study of sogdianite: an example of a symmetric electric field gradient around Fe3+, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 73-78 | |
| Gagné O C, Hawthorne F C (2016) Chemographic exploration of the milarite-type structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1229-1247 | |
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