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Name: Haüyne RRUFF ID: R050606 Ideal Chemistry: Na3Ca(Si3Al3)O12(SO4) Locality: Ariccia, near Rome, Italy Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue crystal embedded in calcite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by X-ray diffraction |
Mineral Groups: [ sodalite (24) ] [ cancrinite-sodalite (37) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Haüyne samples (5) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050606.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.11958(9)Å b: 9.11958(9)Å c: 9.11958(9)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 758.44(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Haüyne | |
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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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Bruun-Neergard T C (1807) De la haüyne, nouvelle substance minerale, Journal des Mines, 21, 365-380 [view file] |
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Bruun-Neergard T C (1807) Ueber den hauyn (la hauyne), eine neue mineralische substanz, Journal of Chemical Physics, 4, 417-429 [view file] |
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Van Peteghem J K, Burley B J (1963) Studies on solid solution between sodalite, nosean and hauyne, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 808-813 [view file] |
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Leoni L, Mellini M, Merlino S, Orlandi P (1979) Cancrinite-like minerals: new data and crystal chemical considerations, Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 35, 713-719 [view file] |
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Hassan I, Grundy H D (1984) The crystal structures of sodalite-group minerals, Acta Crystallographica, B40, 6-13 |
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Hassan I, Grundy H D (1991) The crystal structure of hauyne at 293 and 153 K, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 123-130 [view file] |
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Ballirano P, Maras A, Buseck P R (1996) Crystal chemistry and IR spectroscopy of Cl- and SO4-bearing cancrinite-like minerals, American Mineralogist, 81, 1003-1012 [view file] |
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Hassan I, Antao S M, Parise J B (2004) Haüyne: phase transition and high-temperature structures obtained from synchrotron radiation and Rietveld refinements, Mineralogical Magazine, 68, 499-513 |
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Nasti V (2009) L'olotipo della haüyna, Il Cercapietre, 2009, issue 1-2 16-43 [view file] |
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Hettmann K, Wenzel T, Marks M, Markl G (2012) The sulfur speciation in S-bearing minerals: New constraints by a combination of electron microprobe analysis and DFT calculations with special reference to sodalite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 97, 1653-1661 [view file] |
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Baudouin C, Parat F (2015) Role of volatiles (S, Cl, H2O) and silica activity on the crystallization of haüyne and nosean in phonolitic magmas (Eifel, Germany and Saghro, Morocco), American Mineralogist, 100, 2308-2322 |
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Balassone G, Bellatreccia F, Ottolini L, Mormone A, Petti C, Ghiara M R, Altomare A, Saviano M, Rizi R, D'Orazio L (2016) Sodalite-group minerals, from the Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Naples, Italy): A combined EPMA, SIMS, and FTIR crystal-chemical study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 583-604 |
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Farsang S, Caracas R, Adachi T B M, Schnyder C, Zajacz Z (2023) S2- and S3- radicals and the S42- polysulfide ion in lazurite, haüyne, and synthetic ultramarine blue revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 108, 2234-2243 |
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