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Kermesite R060742

Name: Kermesite
RRUFF ID: R060742
Ideal Chemistry: Sb₂OS₂
Locality: Pezinok, Czechoslovakia
Source: Michael Scott S101199 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark red elongated bladed crystals associated with quartz and blue tanished gudmundite, R060741
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060742.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Sb₂O_1.11S_1.9
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:

R060742

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample.

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 65% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060742.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.125(8)Å b: 10.67(1)Å c: 5.772(8)Å
alpha: 102.80(5)° beta: 110.62(4)° gamma: 100.92(5)° Volume: 436.7(8)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

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 - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Kermesite
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]
Beudant F S (1832) Kermès, antimoine rouge, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 617-618 [view file]
Chapman E J (1843) Kermesite, in Practical Mineralogy Hippolyte Bailliere, Publisher London 61-61 [view file]
Kupčík V (1967) Die kristallstruktur des kermesits, Sb₂S₂O, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 114-114
Bonazzi P, Menchetti S, Sabelli C (1987) Structure refinement of kermesite: symmetry, twinning, and comparison with stibnite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1987, 557-567
Kharbish S, Libowitzky E, Beran A (2009) Raman spectra of isolated and interconnected pyramidal XS₃ groups (X = Sb, Bi) in stibnite, bismuthinite, kermesite, stephanite and bournonite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 325-333

REFERENCES for Kermesite

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]

Beudant F S (1832) Kermès, antimoine rouge, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 617-618 [view file]

Chapman E J (1843) Kermesite, in Practical Mineralogy Hippolyte Bailliere, Publisher London 61-61 [view file]

Kupčík V (1967) Die kristallstruktur des kermesits, Sb₂S₂O, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 114-114

Bonazzi P, Menchetti S, Sabelli C (1987) Structure refinement of kermesite: symmetry, twinning, and comparison with stibnite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1987, 557-567

Kharbish S, Libowitzky E, Beran A (2009) Raman spectra of isolated and interconnected pyramidal XS₃ groups (X = Sb, Bi) in stibnite, bismuthinite, kermesite, stephanite and bournonite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 325-333