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Name: Parascholzite RRUFF ID: R060806 Ideal Chemistry: CaZn2(PO4)2·2H2O Locality: Tip Top mine, Fourmile, Custer District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Source: Michael Scott S100832 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial spray of colorless elongated flattened prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060806.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 17.86(1)Å b: 7.410(5)Å c: 6.669(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 106.52(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 846(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Parascholzite | |
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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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Sturman B D, Rouse R C, Dunn P J (1981) Parascholzite, a new mineral from Hagendorf, Bavaria, and its relationship to scholzite, American Mineralogist, 66, 843-851 [view file] |
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Rolland C, Guidoin R, Ledoux R, Zerguini A, Roy P E (1991) Carbonate-hydroxylapatite, hopeite, and parascholzite in fibrous capsules surrounding silicone breast implants, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 337-345 [view file] |
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Taxer K (1992) Order-disorder and polymorphism of the compound with the composition of scholzite, CaZn2[PO4]2·2H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 198, 239-255 [view file] |
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Taxer K, Bartl H (1997) Die geordnete gemittelte kristallstruktur von parascholzit. Zur dimorphie von CaZn2(PO4)2·2H2O, parascholzit scholzit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 212, 197-202 |
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