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Cerianite-(Ce) R050379

Name: Cerianite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R050379
Ideal Chemistry: CeO₂
Locality: Sierra de Bermejillo, Durango, Mexico
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16081 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black crystals or grains, exhibiting a greasy luster
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Fluorite (12) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050379

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050379.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.41110(4)Å b: 5.41110(4)Å c: 5.41110(4)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 158.437(3)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
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REFERENCES for Cerianite-(Ce)
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]
Graham A R (1955) Cerianite CeO₂: a new rare-earth oxide mineral, American Mineralogist, 40, 560-564 [view file]
Keramidas V G, White W B (1973) Raman spectra of oxides with the fluorite structure, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 59, 1561-1562
Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]
Wolcyrz M, Kepinski L (1992) Rietveld refinement of the structure of CeOCl formed in Pd/CeO₂ catalyst: Notes on the existence of a stabilized tetragonal phase of La₂O₃ in La-Pd-O system, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 99, 409-413
Weber W H, Hass K C, McBride J R (1993) Raman study of CeO₂: second-order scattering, lattice dynamics, and particle-size effects, Physical Review B, 48, 178-185
Zaitsev A N, Chakhmouradian A R, Siidra O I, Spratt J, Williams C T, Stanley C J, Petrov S V, Britvin S N, Polyakova E A (2011) Fluorine-, yttrium- and lanthanide-rich cerianite-(Ce) from carbonatitic rocks of the Kerimasi volcano and surrounding explosion craters, Gregory Rift, northern Tanzania, Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2813-2822 [view file]
Chakrabarty A, Mitchell R H, Ren M, Sen A K, Pruseth K L (2013) Rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and hingganite-(Ce) in syenite gneisses from the Sushina Hill Complex, India: occurrence, compositional data and petrogenetic significance, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3137-3153 [view file]
Kato T, Tsunazawa Y, Liu W, Tokoro C (2019) Structural change analysis of cerianite in weathered residual rare earth ore by mechanochemical reduction using X-ray absorption fine strucutre, Minerals, 9, 267 [view file]

REFERENCES for Cerianite-(Ce)

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]

Graham A R (1955) Cerianite CeO₂: a new rare-earth oxide mineral, American Mineralogist, 40, 560-564 [view file]

Keramidas V G, White W B (1973) Raman spectra of oxides with the fluorite structure, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 59, 1561-1562

Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]

Wolcyrz M, Kepinski L (1992) Rietveld refinement of the structure of CeOCl formed in Pd/CeO₂ catalyst: Notes on the existence of a stabilized tetragonal phase of La₂O₃ in La-Pd-O system, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 99, 409-413

Weber W H, Hass K C, McBride J R (1993) Raman study of CeO₂: second-order scattering, lattice dynamics, and particle-size effects, Physical Review B, 48, 178-185

Zaitsev A N, Chakhmouradian A R, Siidra O I, Spratt J, Williams C T, Stanley C J, Petrov S V, Britvin S N, Polyakova E A (2011) Fluorine-, yttrium- and lanthanide-rich cerianite-(Ce) from carbonatitic rocks of the Kerimasi volcano and surrounding explosion craters, Gregory Rift, northern Tanzania, Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2813-2822 [view file]

Chakrabarty A, Mitchell R H, Ren M, Sen A K, Pruseth K L (2013) Rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and hingganite-(Ce) in syenite gneisses from the Sushina Hill Complex, India: occurrence, compositional data and petrogenetic significance, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3137-3153 [view file]

Kato T, Tsunazawa Y, Liu W, Tokoro C (2019) Structural change analysis of cerianite in weathered residual rare earth ore by mechanochemical reduction using X-ray absorption fine strucutre, Minerals, 9, 267 [view file]