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Name: Romarchite RRUFF ID: R080006 Ideal Chemistry: SnO Locality: Boundary Falls, Winnipeg River, Ontario, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum M53027 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Incrusted lustrous black crystals, reported to be fine-grained psuedomorphs of an unknown phase. Co-type material. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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| RRUFF ID: | R080006.9 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder, using Mo radiation | |||||||
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a: 3.8256(7)Å b: 3.8256(7)Å c: 4.879(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 71.41(4)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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| REFERENCES for Romarchite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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Organ R M, Mandarino J A (1971) Abstract: Romarchite and hydroromarchite, two new stannous minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 916-916 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 1552-1561 [view file] |
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Pannetier J, Denes G (1980) Tin(II) oxide: structure refinement and thermal expansion, Acta Crystallographica, B36, 2763-2765 |
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Izumi F (1981) Pattern-fitting structure refinement of tin(II) oxide, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 38, 381-385 |
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Moreno M S, Mercader R C (1994) Mössbauer study of SnO lattice dynamics, Physical Review B, 50, 9875-9881 |
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Dunkle S E, Craig J R, Rimstidt J D, Lusardi W R (2003) Romarchite, hydroromarchite and abhurite formed during the corrosion of pewter artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge (1718), The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 659-669 [view file] |
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Ramik R A, Organ R M, Mandarino J A (2003) On type romarchite and hydroromarchite from Boundary Falls, Ontario, and notes on other occurrences, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 649-657 [view file] |
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Locock A J, Ramik R A, Back M E (2006) The structures of two novel Sn2+ oxysalts found with romarchite and hydroromarchite as corrosion products of pewter artifacts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1457-1467 [view file] |
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