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Tridymite R040143

Name: Tridymite
RRUFF ID: R040143
Ideal Chemistry: SiO₂
Locality: Big Lue Mountain, Highway 78, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 12643 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless thin hexagonal plates. Masami Kanzaki (Okayama University) suggests this is polytype tridymite PO-10.
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Tridymite (7) ]

Quick search: [ All Tridymite samples (4) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040143.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Si_0.99Al_0.01)O₂

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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RRUFF ID:

R040143

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040143.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.9222(4)Å b: 17.1967(8)Å c: 81.890(6)Å
alpha: 89.992(5)° beta: 90.039(4)° gamma: 89.971(3)° Volume: 13973(1)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

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REFERENCES for Tridymite
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]
vom Rath G (1868) Ueber den Tridymit, eine neue krystallisirte Modification der Kieselsäure, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 135, 437-454 [view file]
Buerger M J, Lukesh J (1941) The tridymite problem, The mineralogist, 7, Proceedings of Societies 143-144 [view file]
Mason B (1953) Tridymite and christensenite, American Mineralogist, 38, 866-867 [view file]
Flörke V O W (1955) Strukturanomalien bei Tridymit und Cristobalit, Berichte der Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft., 32, 369-381
Flörke V O W (1957) Über die röntgen-mineralanalyse und die thermische ausdehnung von cristobalit and tridymit und über die zusammensetzung von silikamassen, Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft, 34, 343-390
Götz V W (1962) Untersuchungen am Tridymit des Siderophyrs von Grimma in Sachsen, Chemie der Erde, 22, 167-174
Sato M (1962) Tridymite crystals in opaline silica from Kusatsu, Gumma Prefecture, Mineralogical Journal, 3, 296-305 [view file]
Sun M S (1962) Tridymite (low form) in some opal of New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 47, 1453-1455 [view file]
Sato M (1963) X-ray study of low tridymite (2) structure of low tridymite, type M, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 131-146 [view file]
Sato M (1963) X-ray study of tridymite (1) on tridymite M and tridymite S, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 115-130 [view file]
Sato M (1964) X-ray study of tridymite (3) unit cell dimensions and phase transition of tridymite, type S, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 215-225 [view file]
Flörke O W (1966) Wachstum und verzwillingung von Tridymit, Kristall und Technik, 1, 405-410
Dollase W A (1967) The crystal structure at 220°C of orthorhombic high tridymite from the Steinbach Meteorite, Acta Crystallographica, 23, 617-623
Grant R W (1967) New data on tridymite, American Mineralogist, 52, 536-541 [view file]
Hoffmann W (1967) Gitterkonstanten und Raumgruppe von Tridymit bei 20°C, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 114-114
Rivalenti G, Sighinolfi G P (1968) Inclusi di tridimite del basalto di Gambellara (Vicenza), Periodico di Mineralogia, 37, 495-501 [view file]
Friedlaender C G I (1970) Entaxy of tridymite in the gangue of a Pb-Cu-Zn occurrence, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 704-709 [view file]
Appleman D E, Nissen H U, Stewart D B, Clark J R, Dowty E, Huebner J S (1971) Studies of lunar plagioclases, tridymite, and cristobalite, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 117-133 [view file]
Dollase W A, Cliff R A, Wetherill G W (1971) Note on tridymite in rock 12021, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 141-142 [view file]
Flörke O W, Langer K (1972) Hydrothermal recrystallization and transformation of tridymite, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 36, 221-230
Jones J B, Segnit E R (1972) Genesis of cristobalite and tridymite at low temperatures, Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 18, 419-422
Mason B (1972) Lunar tridymite and cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1530-1535 [view file]
Klasik J A (1975) High cristobalite and high tridymite in a middle Eocene deep-sea chert, Science, 189, 631-632
Dollase W A, Baur W H (1976) The superstructure of meteoritic low tridymite solved by computer simulation, American Mineralogist, 61, 971-978 [view file]
Kato V K, Nukui A (1976) Die Kristallstruktur des monoklinen Tief-Tridymits, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 2486-2491
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Kihara K (1977) An orthorhombic superstructure of tridymite existing between about 105 and 180°C, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 146, 185-203 [view file]
Schneider H, Florke O W, Majdič A (1977) Thermal expansion of tridymite, Proceedings of the British Ceramic Society, 28, 269-279 [view file]
Kawai K, Matsumoto T, Kihara K, Sakurai K (1978) The first finding of monoclinic tridymite in terrestrial volcanic rocks, Mineralogical Journal, 9, 231-235 [view file]
Kihara K (1978) Thermal change in unit-cell dimensions, and a hexagonal structure of tridymite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 148, 237-253 [view file]
Konnert J H, Appleman D E (1978) The crystal structure of low tridymite, Acta Crystallographica, B34, 391-403
Nukui A, Nakazawa H, Akao M (1978) Thermal changes in monoclinic tridymite, American Mineralogist, 63, 1252-1259 [view file]
Cohen L H, Klement W (1980) Tridymite: Effect of hydrostatic pressure to 6 kbar on temperatures of two rapidly reversible transitions, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 71, 401-405
Schneider H, Wohlleben K, Majdic A (1980) Incorporation of impurities in tridymites from a used silica brick, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 879-883 [view file]
Hoffmann W, Kockmeyer M, Löns J, Vach C (1983) The transformation of monoclinic low-tridymite MC to a phase with an incommensurate superstructure, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 61, 96-98
Wennemer M, Thompson A B (1983) Tridymite polymorphs and polytypes, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 63, 335-353
Kihara K, Matsumoto T, Imamura M (1986) Structural change of orthorhombic-Ι tridymite with temperature: a study based on second-order thermal-vibrational parameters, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 177, 27-38 [view file]
de Jong B H W S, van Hoek J, Veeman W S, Manson D V (1987) X-ray diffraction and ²⁹Si magic-angle-spinning NMR of opals: incoherent long- and short-range order in opal-CT, American Mineralogist, 72, 1195-1203 [view file]
Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]
Ashworth J R (1989) Transmission electron microscopy of coexisting low-tridymite polymorphs, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 89-97 [view file]
Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974
Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by X-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116
Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794
Elzea J M, Rice S B (1996) TEM and X-ray diffraction evidence for cristobalite and tridymite stacking sequences in opal, Clays and Clay Minerals, 44, 492-500
Graetsch H, Topalovic-Dierdorf I (1996) ²⁹Si MAS NMR spectrum and superstructure of modulated tridymite L3-To(MX-1), European Journal of Mineralogy, 8, 103-113
Pryde A K A, Dove M T (1998) On the sequence of phase transitions in tridymite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 26, 171-179
Graetsch H (2001) X-ray powder diffraction study on the modulated high temperature forms of SiO₂ tridymite between 110 and 220 C, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 28, 313-321
Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636
Hirose T, Kihara K, Okuno M, Fujinami S, Shinoda K (2005) X-ray, DTA and Raman studies of monoclinic tridymite and its higher temperature orthorhombic modification with varying temperature, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 100, 55-69 [view file]
Kihara K, Hirose T, Shinoda K (2005) Raman spectra, normal modes and disorder in monoclinic tridymite and its higher temperature orthorhombic modification, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 100, 91-103 [view file]
Jackson J C, Horton Jr. J W, Chou I, Belkin H E (2011) Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, American Mineralogist, 96, 81-88
Seddio A M, Korotev R L, Jolliff B L, Wang A (2015) Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1533-1543
Arasuna A, Kigawa M, Fujii S, Endo T, Takahashi K, Okuno M (2018) Structural characterization of the body frame and spicules of a glass sponge, Minerals, 8, 88 [view file]
Takada A, Glaser K J, Bell R G, Catlow C R A (2018) Molecular dynamics study of tridymite, IUCrJ, 5, 325-334
Kanzaki M (2019) Raman spectra of tridymite modifications: MC, MX-1, and PO-10, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 114, 214-218 [view file]
Lee S, Xu H (2019) Using powder XRD and pair distribution function to determine anisotropic atomic displacement parameters of orthorhombic tridymite and tetragonal cristobalite, Acta Crystallographica, B75, S2052520619000933

REFERENCES for Tridymite

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]

vom Rath G (1868) Ueber den Tridymit, eine neue krystallisirte Modification der Kieselsäure, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 135, 437-454 [view file]

Buerger M J, Lukesh J (1941) The tridymite problem, The mineralogist, 7, Proceedings of Societies 143-144 [view file]

Mason B (1953) Tridymite and christensenite, American Mineralogist, 38, 866-867 [view file]

Flörke V O W (1955) Strukturanomalien bei Tridymit und Cristobalit, Berichte der Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft., 32, 369-381

Flörke V O W (1957) Über die röntgen-mineralanalyse und die thermische ausdehnung von cristobalit and tridymit und über die zusammensetzung von silikamassen, Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft, 34, 343-390

Götz V W (1962) Untersuchungen am Tridymit des Siderophyrs von Grimma in Sachsen, Chemie der Erde, 22, 167-174

Sato M (1962) Tridymite crystals in opaline silica from Kusatsu, Gumma Prefecture, Mineralogical Journal, 3, 296-305 [view file]

Sun M S (1962) Tridymite (low form) in some opal of New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 47, 1453-1455 [view file]

Sato M (1963) X-ray study of low tridymite (2) structure of low tridymite, type M, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 131-146 [view file]

Sato M (1963) X-ray study of tridymite (1) on tridymite M and tridymite S, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 115-130 [view file]

Sato M (1964) X-ray study of tridymite (3) unit cell dimensions and phase transition of tridymite, type S, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 215-225 [view file]

Flörke O W (1966) Wachstum und verzwillingung von Tridymit, Kristall und Technik, 1, 405-410

Dollase W A (1967) The crystal structure at 220°C of orthorhombic high tridymite from the Steinbach Meteorite, Acta Crystallographica, 23, 617-623

Grant R W (1967) New data on tridymite, American Mineralogist, 52, 536-541 [view file]

Hoffmann W (1967) Gitterkonstanten und Raumgruppe von Tridymit bei 20°C, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 114-114

Rivalenti G, Sighinolfi G P (1968) Inclusi di tridimite del basalto di Gambellara (Vicenza), Periodico di Mineralogia, 37, 495-501 [view file]

Friedlaender C G I (1970) Entaxy of tridymite in the gangue of a Pb-Cu-Zn occurrence, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 704-709 [view file]

Appleman D E, Nissen H U, Stewart D B, Clark J R, Dowty E, Huebner J S (1971) Studies of lunar plagioclases, tridymite, and cristobalite, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 117-133 [view file]

Dollase W A, Cliff R A, Wetherill G W (1971) Note on tridymite in rock 12021, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 141-142 [view file]

Flörke O W, Langer K (1972) Hydrothermal recrystallization and transformation of tridymite, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 36, 221-230

Jones J B, Segnit E R (1972) Genesis of cristobalite and tridymite at low temperatures, Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 18, 419-422

Mason B (1972) Lunar tridymite and cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1530-1535 [view file]

Klasik J A (1975) High cristobalite and high tridymite in a middle Eocene deep-sea chert, Science, 189, 631-632

Dollase W A, Baur W H (1976) The superstructure of meteoritic low tridymite solved by computer simulation, American Mineralogist, 61, 971-978 [view file]

Kato V K, Nukui A (1976) Die Kristallstruktur des monoklinen Tief-Tridymits, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 2486-2491

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]

Kihara K (1977) An orthorhombic superstructure of tridymite existing between about 105 and 180°C, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 146, 185-203 [view file]

Schneider H, Florke O W, Majdič A (1977) Thermal expansion of tridymite, Proceedings of the British Ceramic Society, 28, 269-279 [view file]

Kawai K, Matsumoto T, Kihara K, Sakurai K (1978) The first finding of monoclinic tridymite in terrestrial volcanic rocks, Mineralogical Journal, 9, 231-235 [view file]

Kihara K (1978) Thermal change in unit-cell dimensions, and a hexagonal structure of tridymite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 148, 237-253 [view file]

Konnert J H, Appleman D E (1978) The crystal structure of low tridymite, Acta Crystallographica, B34, 391-403

Nukui A, Nakazawa H, Akao M (1978) Thermal changes in monoclinic tridymite, American Mineralogist, 63, 1252-1259 [view file]

Cohen L H, Klement W (1980) Tridymite: Effect of hydrostatic pressure to 6 kbar on temperatures of two rapidly reversible transitions, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 71, 401-405

Schneider H, Wohlleben K, Majdic A (1980) Incorporation of impurities in tridymites from a used silica brick, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 879-883 [view file]

Hoffmann W, Kockmeyer M, Löns J, Vach C (1983) The transformation of monoclinic low-tridymite MC to a phase with an incommensurate superstructure, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 61, 96-98

Wennemer M, Thompson A B (1983) Tridymite polymorphs and polytypes, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 63, 335-353

Kihara K, Matsumoto T, Imamura M (1986) Structural change of orthorhombic-Ι tridymite with temperature: a study based on second-order thermal-vibrational parameters, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 177, 27-38 [view file]

de Jong B H W S, van Hoek J, Veeman W S, Manson D V (1987) X-ray diffraction and ²⁹Si magic-angle-spinning NMR of opals: incoherent long- and short-range order in opal-CT, American Mineralogist, 72, 1195-1203 [view file]

Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]

Ashworth J R (1989) Transmission electron microscopy of coexisting low-tridymite polymorphs, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 89-97 [view file]

Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974

Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by X-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116

Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794

Elzea J M, Rice S B (1996) TEM and X-ray diffraction evidence for cristobalite and tridymite stacking sequences in opal, Clays and Clay Minerals, 44, 492-500

Graetsch H, Topalovic-Dierdorf I (1996) ²⁹Si MAS NMR spectrum and superstructure of modulated tridymite L3-To(MX-1), European Journal of Mineralogy, 8, 103-113

Pryde A K A, Dove M T (1998) On the sequence of phase transitions in tridymite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 26, 171-179

Graetsch H (2001) X-ray powder diffraction study on the modulated high temperature forms of SiO₂ tridymite between 110 and 220 C, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 28, 313-321

Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636

Hirose T, Kihara K, Okuno M, Fujinami S, Shinoda K (2005) X-ray, DTA and Raman studies of monoclinic tridymite and its higher temperature orthorhombic modification with varying temperature, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 100, 55-69 [view file]

Kihara K, Hirose T, Shinoda K (2005) Raman spectra, normal modes and disorder in monoclinic tridymite and its higher temperature orthorhombic modification, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 100, 91-103 [view file]

Jackson J C, Horton Jr. J W, Chou I, Belkin H E (2011) Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, American Mineralogist, 96, 81-88

Seddio A M, Korotev R L, Jolliff B L, Wang A (2015) Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1533-1543

Arasuna A, Kigawa M, Fujii S, Endo T, Takahashi K, Okuno M (2018) Structural characterization of the body frame and spicules of a glass sponge, Minerals, 8, 88 [view file]

Takada A, Glaser K J, Bell R G, Catlow C R A (2018) Molecular dynamics study of tridymite, IUCrJ, 5, 325-334

Kanzaki M (2019) Raman spectra of tridymite modifications: MC, MX-1, and PO-10, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 114, 214-218 [view file]

Lee S, Xu H (2019) Using powder XRD and pair distribution function to determine anisotropic atomic displacement parameters of orthorhombic tridymite and tetragonal cristobalite, Acta Crystallographica, B75, S2052520619000933