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Name: Vigezzite RRUFF ID: R120132 Ideal Chemistry: (Ca,Ce)(Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6 Locality: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Southeast Region, Brazil Source: Luiz Menezes [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown transparent crystals associated with black tochilinite, strontianite, and dolomite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Mineral Group: [ Aeschynite (8) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Vigezzite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R120132.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.137(3)Å b: 7.576(2)Å c: 5.3766(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 453.7(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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| REFERENCES for Vigezzite | |
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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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Komkov A I (1959) On minerals of the euxenite-polycrase and blomstrandine-priorite series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 126, 641-644 |
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Graeser S, Schwander H, Hänni, Mattiolo V (1979) Vigezzite, (Ca,Ce)(Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6, a new aeschynite-type mineral from the Alps, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 459-462 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Pabst A (1980) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 65, 808-814 [view file] |
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Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1990) The crystal structure of vigezzite, (Ca, Ce)(Nd, Ta, Ti)2O6, intermediate term of the aeschynite series, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1990, 301-308 |
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koda R, Novák M (2007) Y,REE,Nb,Ta,Ti-oxide (AB2O6) minerals from REL-REE euxenite-subtype pegmatites of the Třebíč Pluton, Czech Republic; substitutions and fractionation trends, Lithos, 95, 43-57 |
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Ma Q, Zhang A, Lü M, Zhou Y, Qiu Z, Zhou G (2007) Novel class of aeschynite structure LaNbTiO6 - based orange-red phosphors via a modified combustion approach, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 12693-12699 |
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Qi X, Liu C M, Kuo C C (2010) Pr3+ doped LaTiNbO6 as a single phosphor for white LEDs, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 492, L61-L63 |
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