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Name: Behoite RRUFF ID: R130230 Ideal Chemistry: Be(OH)2 Locality: Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless vitreous pseudo-octahedral crystals in a yellow crust on brown gadolinite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Cristobalite (11) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Behoite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R130230.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.615(2)Å b: 7.045(4)Å c: 4.523(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 147.06(6)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Behoite | |
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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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Seitz A, Rösler U, Schubert K (1950) Kristallstruktur von β-Be(OH)2, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 261, 94-105 |
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Bear I J, Lukaszewski M G, Turnbull A G (1965) The infrared spectra of the solid phases in the sysem BeO-H2O, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 18, 1317-1330 |
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Bear I J, Turnbull A G (1965) The heats of formation of beryllium compounds. I. Beryllium Hydroxides, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 69, issue 9 2828-2833 |
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Mercer R A, Miller R P (1966) The preparation and properties of some hydroxy compounds of beryllium, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 28, 61-76 |
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Ehlmann A J, Mitchell R S (1970) Behoite, beta-Be(OH)2, from the Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, American Mineralogist, 55, 1-9 [view file] |
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Stahl R, Jung C, Lutz H D, Kockelmann W, Jacobs H (1998) Kristallstrukturen und Wasserstoffbrückenbindungen bei β-Be(OH)2 und ε-Zn(OH)2, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 624, 1130-1136 |
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Jacobs H, Niemann A, Kockelmann W (2005) Low temperature investigations of hydrogen bridge bonds in the hydroxides βBe(OH)2 and εZn(OH)2 by Ramanspectroscopy as well as Xray and neutron diffraction, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 631, 1247-1254 |
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Lyalina L M, Savchenko Y E, Selivanova E A, Zozulya D R (2010) Behoite and mimetite from the Saharjok alkaline intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Geology of Ore Deposits, 52, 641-645 |
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