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Prosopite R050668

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Name: Prosopite
RRUFF ID: R050668
Ideal Chemistry: CaAl2F4(OH)4
Locality: Grand Reef mine, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 14101 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Light-blue massive coating on quartz
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050668.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050668
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050668.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050668.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.7054(3)Å    b: 11.1501(8)Å    c: 7.3643(3)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 94.912(5)°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 548.58(4)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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

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REFERENCES for Prosopite

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]

Scheerer T (1853) Ueber Pseudomorphosen, nebst Beiträgen zur Charakteristik eineger Arten derselben, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 90, 315-323   [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Pyatenko Y A (1970) About the structure of the prosopite, Ca[Al2F4(OH)4], and about some features of the fluoroaluminate crystal chemistry, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 190, 665-667   [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Chernitsova N M, Pyatenko Y A (1973) Refinement of the crystalline structure of prosopite, CaAl2F4(OH)4, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 14, 345-347

Hongu H, Yoshiasa A, Teshima A, Isobe H, Sugiyama K, Arima H, Nakatsuka A, Momma K, Miyawaki R (2018) Crystal structure refinement and chemical formula of prosopite, CaAl2F4[(OH)4-xFx] x = 0.0-1.0, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 113, 152-158   [view file]