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Name: Thénardite RRUFF ID: R040183 Ideal Chemistry: Na2(SO4) Locality: Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 6105 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Tan colored fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Quick search: [ All Thénardite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R040183.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.8196(4)Å b: 12.3047(6)Å c: 5.8613(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 708.21(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Thénardite | |
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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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Casaseca J L (1826) Thenardite, The Annals of Philosophy, 12, 312-314 [view file] |
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Blasdale W C, Robson H L (1928) The system water and the sulfates of sodium and magnesium, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 50, 35-46 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1975) Anhydrous sulphates. I : Refinement of the crystal structure of celestite with an appendix on the structure of thenardite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 181-187 [view file] |
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Mehrotra B N, Hahn T, Eysel W, Röpke H, Illguth A (1978) Crystal chemistry of compounds with thenardite (Na2SO4V) structure, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1978, 408-421 |
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Mehrotra B N (1981) The crystal structure of Na2SO4 III, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 155, 159-163 [view file] |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18 [view file] |
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Bramble M S, Flemming R L, Hutter J L, Battler M M, Osinski G R, Banerjee N R (2014) A temperature-controlled sample stage for in situ micro-X-ray diffraction: Application to Mars analog mirabilite-bearing perennial cold spring precipitate mineralogy, American Mineralogist, 99, 943-947 |
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Lopez-Reyes G, Sobron P, Lefebvre C, Rull F (2014) Multivariate analysis of Raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars, American Mineralogist, 99, 1570-1579 |
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Williams P A, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2014) IMA Commission on new minerals, nomenclature and classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 20. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2014, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 549-558 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (2015) Mineral nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 775-775 |
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