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Aphthitalite R050651

Name: Aphthitalite
RRUFF ID: R050651
Ideal Chemistry: K₃Na(SO₄)₂
Locality: Searles Lake, Trona, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 13723 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless hexagonal crystals displaying P-3m1 space group symmetry, associated with halite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Aphthitalite (3) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050651.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050651

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050651.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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	Infrared Data (Processed)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050651.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.680(2)Å b: 5.680(2)Å c: 7.320(3)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 204.53(6)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

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)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Aphthitalite
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]
Smithson J (1813) On a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 103, 256-262 [view file]
Beudant F S (1832) Aphthalose, tartre vitriolé, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 477-478 [view file]
Shepard C U (1835) Aphthitalite, Treatise on Mineralogy, Second Part, Vol 1, Hezekiah Howe and Co. and Herrick and Noyes New Haven, Connecticut, USA 36-36 [view file]
Washington H S, Merwin H E (1921) Aphthitalite from kilauea, American Mineralogist, 6, 121-125 [view file]
Schaller W T, Henderson E P (1932) Mineralogy of drill cores from the potash field of New Mexico and Texas, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 833, 1-124 [view file]
Frondel C (1950) Notes on arcanite, ammonian aphthitalite and oxammite, American Mineralogist, 35, 596-598 [view file]
Dickens B, Brown W E, Kruger G J, Stewart J M (1973) Ca₄(PO₄)₂O, tetracalcium diphosphate monooxide. Crystal structure and relationships to Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH and K₃Na(SO₄)₂, Acta Crystallographica, B29, 2046-2056
Okada K, Ossaka J (1980) Structures of potassium sodium sulphate and tripotassium sodium disulphate, Acta Crystallographica, B36, 919-921
Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 106, 1035-1044 [view file]
Shchipalkina N V, Koshlyakova N N, Pekov I V, Agakhanov A A, Britvin S N, Nazarova M A (2023) Alkali sulfates with aphthitalite-like structures from fumaroles of the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. IV. Aphthitalite–palmierite regular intergrowths: crystallography, chemistry, and genesis, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 609-622

REFERENCES for Aphthitalite

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]

Smithson J (1813) On a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 103, 256-262 [view file]

Beudant F S (1832) Aphthalose, tartre vitriolé, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 477-478 [view file]

Shepard C U (1835) Aphthitalite, Treatise on Mineralogy, Second Part, Vol 1, Hezekiah Howe and Co. and Herrick and Noyes New Haven, Connecticut, USA 36-36 [view file]

Washington H S, Merwin H E (1921) Aphthitalite from kilauea, American Mineralogist, 6, 121-125 [view file]

Schaller W T, Henderson E P (1932) Mineralogy of drill cores from the potash field of New Mexico and Texas, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 833, 1-124 [view file]

Frondel C (1950) Notes on arcanite, ammonian aphthitalite and oxammite, American Mineralogist, 35, 596-598 [view file]

Dickens B, Brown W E, Kruger G J, Stewart J M (1973) Ca₄(PO₄)₂O, tetracalcium diphosphate monooxide. Crystal structure and relationships to Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH and K₃Na(SO₄)₂, Acta Crystallographica, B29, 2046-2056

Okada K, Ossaka J (1980) Structures of potassium sodium sulphate and tripotassium sodium disulphate, Acta Crystallographica, B36, 919-921

Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 106, 1035-1044 [view file]

Shchipalkina N V, Koshlyakova N N, Pekov I V, Agakhanov A A, Britvin S N, Nazarova M A (2023) Alkali sulfates with aphthitalite-like structures from fumaroles of the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. IV. Aphthitalite–palmierite regular intergrowths: crystallography, chemistry, and genesis, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 609-622