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Name: Orpiment RRUFF ID: R060105 Ideal Chemistry: As2S3 Locality: Mercur, Utah, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 14058 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellowish-orange crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
| Mineral Group: [ Orpiment (2) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Orpiment samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060105.1 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.394(1)Å b: 9.591(1)Å c: 4.2626(5)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.151(6)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 465.83(6)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Orpiment | |
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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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Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file] |
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Buerger M J (1942) The unit cell and space group of orpiment, American Mineralogist, 27, 301-304 [view file] |
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Morimoto N (1954) The crystal structure of orpiment (As2S3) refined, Mineralogical Journal, 1, 160-169 [view file] |
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Evans B L, Young P A (1967) Optical properties of arsenic trisulphide, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A297, 230-243 |
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Zallen R, Slade M L, Ward A T (1971) Lattice vibrations and interlayer interactions in crystalline As2S3 and As2Se3, Physical Review B, 3, 4257-4273 |
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Mullen D J E, Nowacki W (1972) Refinement of the crystal structures of realgar, AsS and orpiment, As2S3, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 136, 48-65 [view file] |
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Besson J M, Cernogora J, Zallen R (1980) Effect of pressure on optical properties of crystalline As2S3, Physical Review B, 22, 3866-3876 |
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Besson J M, Cernogora J, Slade M L, Weinstein B A, Zallen R (1981) Pressure effects on the absorption edge, refractive index, and Raman spectra of crystalline and amorphous As2S3, Physica B, 105, 319-323 |
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Devaud G, Aziz M J, Turnbull D (1989) High-pressure crystallization kinetics of As2S3, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 109, 121-128 |
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Frost R L, Martens W N, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopic study of cinnabar (HgS), realgar (As4S4), and orpiment (As2S3) at 298 and 77K, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2002, 469-480 |
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Espeau P, Tamarit J L, Barrio M, López D Ó, Perrin M A, Allouchi H, Céolin R (2006) Solid state studies on synthetic and natural crystalline arsenic(III) sulfide, As2S3 (Orpiment): New data for an old compound, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 3821-3826 |
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Bonazzi P, Bindi L (2008) A crystallographic review of arsenic sulfides: Effects of chemical variations and changes induced by exposure to light, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 223, 132-147 |
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Gibbs G V, Wallace A F, Zallen R, Downs R T, Ross N L, Cox D F, Rosso K M (2010) Bond paths and van der Waals interactions in orpiment, As2S3, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 6550-6557 [view file] |
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Srivastava P, Mund H S, Sharma Y (2011) Investigation of electronic properties of crystalline arsenic chalcogenides: Theory and experiments, Physica B, 406, 3083-3088 |
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