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Name: Descloizite RRUFF ID: R050509 Ideal Chemistry: PbZn(VO4)(OH) Locality: Grootfontein district, Namibia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 7892 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Group of brown tabular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ descloizite (10) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Descloizite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050509.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.6120(8)Å b: 6.0570(9)Å c: 9.432(1)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 434.91(6)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Descloizite | |
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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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Damour A A (1854) Notice sur la descloizite, nouvelle espèce minérale, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 41, 72-78 [view file] |
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Descloizeaux A (1854) Note sur la forme cristalline d'un nouveau vanadiate de plomb, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 41, 78-80 [view file] |
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Rammelsberg C (1880) Ueber die Vanadinerze aus dem Staat Córdoba in Argentinien, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 32, 708-713 [view file] |
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Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] |
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Barnes W H, Qurashi M M (1952) Unit cell and space group data for certain vanadium minerals, American Mineralogist, 37, 407-422 |
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Bachmann H G (1953) Beiträge zur kristallchemie natürlicher und künstlicher schwermetallvanadate. I. Die morphologie des descloizit (und des pyrobelonit), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 68-82 |
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Bachmann H G (1953) Beiträge zur kristallchemie natürlicher und künstlicher schwermetallvanadate. II. Die kristallstruktur des descloizit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 193-208 |
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Bachmann H G (1953) Die kristallstruktur des descloizit, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 102-102 |
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Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1963) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: IV - descloizite and conichalcite (part 2) The structure of conichalcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 561-577 [view file] |
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Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1964) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: Vdescloizite and conichalcite (part 3). The structure of descloizite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 23-39 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Faggiani R (1979) Refinement of the structure of descloizite, Acta Crystallographica, B35, 717-720 |
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Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T, Leverett P (2001) Raman spectroscopy of descloizite and mottramite at 298 and 77 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 32, 906-911 |
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Effenberger H (2002) New investigations of the adelite-descloizite group, 18th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Edinburgh, UK, 18, 134-142 [view file] |
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Effenberger H (2002) Structural relations in the adelite- and descloizite-structure type, Acta Crystallographica, A58, C333-C333 |
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Ðorđević T, Kolitsch U, Nasadala L (2016) A single-crystal X-ray and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrothermally synthesized arsenates and vanadates with the descloizite and adelite structure types, American Mineralogist, 101, 1135-1149 |
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Weil M (2019) Crystal chemistry of new descloizite-type compounds containing mercury, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 369-378 |
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