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Name: Wickmanite RRUFF ID: R100017 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+Sn4+(OH)6 Locality: Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden Source: William Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless distorted octahedra Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Perovskite (44) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R100017.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.904(1)Å b: 7.904(1)Å c: 7.904(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 493.85(5)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Wickmanite | |
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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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Strunz V H, Contag B (1960) Hexahydroxostannate Fe, Mn, Co, Mg, Ca[Sn(OH)6] und deren kristallstruktur, Acta Crystallographica, 13, 601-603 |
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Moore P B, Smith J V (1967) Wickmanite, Mn+2[Sn+4(OH)6], a new mineral from Långban, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 395-399 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 1063-1066 [view file] |
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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 |
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Christensen A N, Hazell R G (1969) Hydrothermal preparation of hydroxy stannates. The crystal structure of MnSn(OH)6, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 23, 1219-1224 |
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Fleischer M (1971) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 56, 1487-1489 [view file] |
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Nefedov E I, Griffin W L, Kristiansen R (1977) Minerals of the schoenfliesite - wickmanite series from Pitkäranta, Karelia, U.S.S.R., The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 437-445 [view file] |
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Basciano L C, Peterson R C, Roeder P L, Swainson I (1998) Description of schoenfliesite, MgSn(OH)6, and roxbyite, Cu1.72S, from a 1375 BC shipwreck, and Rietveld neutron-diffraction refinement of synthetic schoenfliesite, wickmanite, MnSn(OH)6, and burtite, CaSn(OH)6, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 1203-1210 [view file] |
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Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file] |
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