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Meionite R040169

Name: Meionite
RRUFF ID: R040169
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₄Al₆Si₆O₂₄(CO₃)
Locality: Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 12235 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: White massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Scapolite (11) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040169.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Ca_0.73Na_0.24K_0.03)₄(Si_0.58Al_0.41)₁₂O₂₄((CO₃)_0.90Cl_0.10)

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished

Pin ID:

L00216

Orientation:

Laser parallel to a* (1 0 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040169

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R040169.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040169.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 12.1592(3)Å b: 12.1592(3)Å c: 7.5653(3)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1118.51(5)Å³ Crystal System: tetragonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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	Cell Refinement Data
	Cell Refinement Output Data
	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Meionite
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]
d’Andrada J B (1800) Der Eigenschaften und Kennzeichen einiger neuen Fossilien aus Schweden und Norwegen nebst einigen chemischen Bemerkungen über dieselben, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 4, 28-39 [view file]
d’Andrada J B (1801) Description of some new fossils (Old English translation), A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 5, 193-196; 211-213 [view file]
Haüy R J (1801) Meïonite, Traité de Minéralogie, 2, 586-590 [view file]
Haüy R J (1801) Wernerite, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 119-125 [view file]
Jameson R (1805) Meionite, System of Mineralogy, II, Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh, U.K. 564-565 [view file]
Leman J (1818) Meionite, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 20, 28-31 [view file]
Pauling L (1930) The structure of some sodium and calcium aluminosilicates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 453-459 [view file]
Ulbrich H H (1973) Crystallographic data and refractive indices of scapolites, American Mineralogist, 58, 81-92 [view file]
Lin S B, Burley B J (1974) The crystal structure of an intermediate scapolite - wernerite, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 21, 196-215
Bayliss P (1987) Mineral nomenclature: scapolite, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 176-176 [view file]
Zolotarev A A (1993) Gem scapolite from the Eastern Pamirs and some general consitutional features of scapolites, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 122, 90-102 [view file]
Teertstra D K, Sherriff B L (1996) Scapolite cell-parameter trends along the solid-solution series, American Mineralogist, 81, 169-180 [view file]
Zolotarev A A (1996) Once more about schemes and rows of isomorphism within the scapolite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 125, issue 1 69-73 [view file]
Sherriff B L, Sokolova E V, Kabalov Y K, Jenkins D M, Kunath-Fandrei G, Goetz S, Jäger C, Schneider J (2000) Meionite: Rietveld structure-refinement, ²⁹Si MAS and ²⁹Al SATRAS NMR spectroscopy, and comments on the marialite-meionite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1201-1213 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I, Wang J, Lee P L, Toby B H (2008) State-of-the-art high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) illustrated with Rietveld structure refinement of quartz, sodalite, tremolite, and meionite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1501-1509 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Increase in Al-Si and Na-Ca disorder with temperature in scapolite Me_32.9, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1577-1591 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Unusual Al-Si ordering in calcic scapolite, Me_79.6, with increasing temperature, American Mineralogist, 93, 1470-1477 [view file]
Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C (2008) The crystal chemistry of the scapolite-group minerals. I. crystal structure and long-range order, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1527-1554 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) Complete Al-Si order in scapolite Me_37.5, ideally Ca₃Na₅[Al₈Si₁₆O₄₈]Cl(CO₃), and implications for antiphase domain boundaries (APBs), The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 581-586 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) The structure of marialite (Me₆) and meionite (Me₉₃) in space groups P4₂/n and I4/m, and the absence of phase transitions in the scapolite series, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 26, 78-91 [view file]

REFERENCES for Meionite

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]

d’Andrada J B (1800) Der Eigenschaften und Kennzeichen einiger neuen Fossilien aus Schweden und Norwegen nebst einigen chemischen Bemerkungen über dieselben, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 4, 28-39 [view file]

d’Andrada J B (1801) Description of some new fossils (Old English translation), A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 5, 193-196; 211-213 [view file]

Haüy R J (1801) Meïonite, Traité de Minéralogie, 2, 586-590 [view file]

Haüy R J (1801) Wernerite, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 119-125 [view file]

Jameson R (1805) Meionite, System of Mineralogy, II, Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh, U.K. 564-565 [view file]

Leman J (1818) Meionite, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 20, 28-31 [view file]

Pauling L (1930) The structure of some sodium and calcium aluminosilicates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 453-459 [view file]

Ulbrich H H (1973) Crystallographic data and refractive indices of scapolites, American Mineralogist, 58, 81-92 [view file]

Lin S B, Burley B J (1974) The crystal structure of an intermediate scapolite - wernerite, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 21, 196-215

Bayliss P (1987) Mineral nomenclature: scapolite, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 176-176 [view file]

Zolotarev A A (1993) Gem scapolite from the Eastern Pamirs and some general consitutional features of scapolites, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 122, 90-102 [view file]

Teertstra D K, Sherriff B L (1996) Scapolite cell-parameter trends along the solid-solution series, American Mineralogist, 81, 169-180 [view file]

Zolotarev A A (1996) Once more about schemes and rows of isomorphism within the scapolite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 125, issue 1 69-73 [view file]

Sherriff B L, Sokolova E V, Kabalov Y K, Jenkins D M, Kunath-Fandrei G, Goetz S, Jäger C, Schneider J (2000) Meionite: Rietveld structure-refinement, ²⁹Si MAS and ²⁹Al SATRAS NMR spectroscopy, and comments on the marialite-meionite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1201-1213 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I, Wang J, Lee P L, Toby B H (2008) State-of-the-art high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) illustrated with Rietveld structure refinement of quartz, sodalite, tremolite, and meionite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1501-1509 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Increase in Al-Si and Na-Ca disorder with temperature in scapolite Me_32.9, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1577-1591 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Unusual Al-Si ordering in calcic scapolite, Me_79.6, with increasing temperature, American Mineralogist, 93, 1470-1477 [view file]

Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C (2008) The crystal chemistry of the scapolite-group minerals. I. crystal structure and long-range order, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1527-1554 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) Complete Al-Si order in scapolite Me_37.5, ideally Ca₃Na₅[Al₈Si₁₆O₄₈]Cl(CO₃), and implications for antiphase domain boundaries (APBs), The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 581-586 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) The structure of marialite (Me₆) and meionite (Me₉₃) in space groups P4₂/n and I4/m, and the absence of phase transitions in the scapolite series, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 26, 78-91 [view file]