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Senarmontite R060002

Name: Senarmontite
RRUFF ID: R060002
Ideal Chemistry: Sb₂O₃
Locality: Chenlong, Xin Yi County, Guizhou Province, China
Source: Ken Roberts
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Glassy coating over an altered stibnite crystal, mixed with cervantite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Arsenolite (4) ]

Quick search: [ All Senarmontite samples (2) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060002.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Sb_1.99As_0.01)O₃ ; core and light rim
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060002

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 80% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R060002.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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	Infrared Data (Processed)
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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060002.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 11.1481(6)Å b: 11.1481(6)Å c: 11.1481(6)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1385.5(0)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

File Type Information

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

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	Cell Refinement Data
	Cell Refinement Output Data
	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Senarmontite
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]
Dana J D (1851) Mineralogical Notices. No. III. 1. New species. Octahedral oxyd of antimony, American Journal of Science and Arts, 12, 205-222 [view file]
de Senarmont H H (1851) Note sur l´antimoine oxydé naturel de forme octaédrique, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 31, 504-507 [view file]
Bozorth R M (1923) The crystal structures of the cubic forms of arsenious and antimonous oxides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 45, 1621-1627 [view file]
Dehlinger U (1927) Über die kristallstruktur der antimonoxyde, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 108-119 [view file]
Mason B, Vitaliano C J (1952) The mineralogy of the antimony oxides and antimonates, Mineralogical Magazine, 30, 100-112 [view file]
Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541
Beattie I R, Livingston K M S, Ozin G A, Reynolds D J (1970) Single-crystal Raman spectra of arsenolite (As₄O₆) and senarmonite (Sb₄O₆). The gas-phase Raman spectra pf P₄O₆, P₄O₁₀, and As₄O₆, Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical, 1970, 449-451
Svensson C (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of cubic antimony trioxide, Sb₂O₃, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 2016-2018
Zav'yalova A A, Imamov R M (1975) About the structure of the cubic modification of Sb₂O₃, Soviet Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 1, 1186-1188
Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]
Whitten AE, Dittrich B, Spackman MA, Turner P, Brown TC (2004) Charge density analysis of two polymorphs of antimony(III) oxide, Dalton Transactions, 2004, 23-29
Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864 [view file]
Moseley D H, Bridges C A, Daemen L L, Zhang Q, McGuire M A, Cakmak E, Hermann R P (2023) Structure and anharmonicity of α- and β-Sb₂O₃ at low temperature, Crystals, 13, 752 [link] [view file]

REFERENCES for Senarmontite

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]

Dana J D (1851) Mineralogical Notices. No. III. 1. New species. Octahedral oxyd of antimony, American Journal of Science and Arts, 12, 205-222 [view file]

de Senarmont H H (1851) Note sur l´antimoine oxydé naturel de forme octaédrique, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 31, 504-507 [view file]

Bozorth R M (1923) The crystal structures of the cubic forms of arsenious and antimonous oxides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 45, 1621-1627 [view file]

Dehlinger U (1927) Über die kristallstruktur der antimonoxyde, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 108-119 [view file]

Mason B, Vitaliano C J (1952) The mineralogy of the antimony oxides and antimonates, Mineralogical Magazine, 30, 100-112 [view file]

Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541

Beattie I R, Livingston K M S, Ozin G A, Reynolds D J (1970) Single-crystal Raman spectra of arsenolite (As₄O₆) and senarmonite (Sb₄O₆). The gas-phase Raman spectra pf P₄O₆, P₄O₁₀, and As₄O₆, Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical, 1970, 449-451

Svensson C (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of cubic antimony trioxide, Sb₂O₃, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 2016-2018

Zav'yalova A A, Imamov R M (1975) About the structure of the cubic modification of Sb₂O₃, Soviet Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 1, 1186-1188

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]

Whitten AE, Dittrich B, Spackman MA, Turner P, Brown TC (2004) Charge density analysis of two polymorphs of antimony(III) oxide, Dalton Transactions, 2004, 23-29

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864 [view file]

Moseley D H, Bridges C A, Daemen L L, Zhang Q, McGuire M A, Cakmak E, Hermann R P (2023) Structure and anharmonicity of α- and β-Sb₂O₃ at low temperature, Crystals, 13, 752 [link] [view file]