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|   |   | Name: Buddingtonite RRUFF ID: R061115 Ideal Chemistry: (NH4)(AlSi3)O8 Locality: Sharon Heights, Menlo Park, Santa Clara County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S104786 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grey fine-grained massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ feldspar (62) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R061115.1 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 8.8042(7)Å    b: 13.048(1)Å    c: 7.1972(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 116.085(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 742.59(6)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | |||||||
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| REFERENCES for Buddingtonite | |
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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] | |
| Erd R C, White D E, Fahey J J, Lee D E (1964) Buddingtonite, an ammonium feldspar with zeolitic water, American Mineralogist, 49, 831-851 [view file] | |
| Loughnan F C, Roberts F I, Lindner A W (1983) Buddingtonite (NH4-feldspar) in the Condor Oilshale Deposit, Queensland, Australia, Mineralogical Magazine, 47, 327-334 [view file] | |
| Voncken J H L, Van Roermund H L M, Van Der Eerden A M J, Jansen J B H, Erd R C (1993) Holotype buddingtonite: An ammonium feldspar without zeolitic H2O, American Mineralogist, 78, 204-209 [view file] | |
| Harlov D E, Andrut M, Pöter B (2001) Characterisation of buddingtonite (NH4)[AlSi3O8] and ND4-buddingtonite (ND4)[AlSi3O8] using IR spectroscopy and Rieveld refinement of XRD spectra, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 28, 188-198 | |
| Franz G, Khomenko V, Vishnyevskyy A, Wirth R, Struck U, Nissen J, Gernert U, Rocholl A (2017) Biologically mediated crystallization of buddingtonite in the Paleoproterozoic: Organic-igneous interactions from the Volyn pegmatite, Ukraine, American Mineralogist, 102, 2119-2135 | |
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