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Name: Magadiite RRUFF ID: R060994 Ideal Chemistry: Na2Si14O28(OH)2·8H2O Locality: Trinity Lake, Trinity County, California, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: White compacted fine-grained silt Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060994.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
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REFERENCES for Magadiite | |
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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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Eugster H P (1967) Hydrous sodium silicates from Lake Magadi, Kenya: Precursors of bedded chert, Science, 157, 1177-1180 |
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Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 507-511 [view file] |
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McAtee J L, House R, Eugster H P (1968) Magadiite from Trinity County, California, American Mineralogist, 53, 2061-2069 [view file] |
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Lagaly G, Beneke K, Weiss A (1975) Magadiite and H-magadiite: I. sodium magadiite and some of its derivatives, American Mineralogist, 60, 642-649 [view file] |
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Garcés J M, Rocke S C, Crowder C E, Hasha D L (1988) Hypothetical structures of magadiite and sodium octosilicate and structural relationships between the layered alkali metal silicates and the mordenite- and pentasil-group zeolites, Clays and Clay Minerals, 36, 409-418 |
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Beneke K, Thiesen P, Lagaly G (1990) Synthesis and properties of the sodium lithium silicate silinaite, Inorganic Chemistry, 34, 900-907 [view file] |
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Zubkova N V, Pekov I V, Pushcharovsky D Y (2014) A review of crystal chemistry of natural silicates of alkaline elements in the light of new structural data, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 253-265 [view file] |
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Marler B, Krysiak Y, Grosskreuz I, Gies H, Kolb U (2022) The crystal structure of mineral magadiite, Na2Si14O28(OH)2·8H2O, American Mineralogist, 107, 2101-2110 |
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