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|   |   | Name: Uralborite RRUFF ID: R061140 Ideal Chemistry: CaB2O2(OH)4 Locality: Fuka mine, Bicchu-cho, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Source: Michael Scott S105128 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R061140.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 6.913(4)Å    b: 9.816(8)Å    c: 12.29(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 97.10(2)° Volume: 828(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Uralborite | |
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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] | |
| Malinko S V (1961) New boron minerals  uralborite and pentahydroborite, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 90, issue 6 673-681 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 1482-1485 [view file] | |
| International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] | |
| Shashkin D N, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1970) The crystal structure of uralborite Ca2[B4O4(OH)8], Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 14, 1044-1046 [view file] | |
| Simonov M A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1977) Accurate crystal structure of uralborite, Ca2[B4O4(OH)8], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 277-279 | |
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