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Name: Metauranocircite RRUFF ID: R050575 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(UO2)2(PO4)2·6H2O Locality: Voightland, Saxony, Germany Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 3041 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow platy crystals with minor intergrown quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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RRUFF ID: | R050575.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.01(1)Å b: 17.00(3)Å c: 7.02(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.13(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 837(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Metauranocircite | |
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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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Gaubert M P (1904) Produits de déshydratation de quelques phosphates et orientation du chlorure de baryum sur les minéraux du groupe de l´autunite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie, 27, 222-233 [view file] |
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Nuffield E W, Milne I H (1953) Studies of radioactive compounds: VImeta-uranocircite, American Mineralogist, 38, 476-488 [view file] |
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Pulou R (1957) Méta-uranocircite d'entraygues (Aveyron), Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 80, 32-38 [view file] |
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Walenta K (1963) Über die Barium-Uranylphosphatmineralien Uranocircit I, Uranocircit II, Meta-Uranocircit I und Meta-Uranocircit II von Menzenschwand in südlichen Schwarzwald, Jahreshefte des Geologischen Landesamtes in Baden-Württemberg, 6, 113-135 |
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Khosrawan-Sazedj F (1982) The crystal structure of meta-uranocircite II, Ba(UO2)2(PO4)2·6H2O, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 29, 193-204 |
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Jambor J L, Burke E A J, Grew E S, Puziewicz J (1993) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 78, 672-678 [view file] |
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Locock A J, Burns P C, Flynn T M (2005) Structures of strontium- and barium-dominant compounds that contain the autunite-type sheet, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 721-733 [view file] |
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Piilonen P C, Locock A, Grew E S (2005) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 90, 1945-1952 [view file] |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Nichols M C (2009) IMA/CNMNC list of mineral names compiled by Ernest H. Nickel & Monte C. Nichols supplied through the courtesy of Materials Data, Inc. (http://www.MaterialsData.com) and based on the database MINERAL, which MDI makes available as a free download to the mineralogical community, 1-315 [view file] |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468 [view file] |
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Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232 |
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