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Name: Mendipite RRUFF ID: R050669 Ideal Chemistry: Pb3O2Cl2 Locality: Mendip Hills, Higher Pits, Somerset, England Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 9713 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless coarsely fibrous aggregate Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050669.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.8906(8)Å b: 5.8115(6)Å c: 9.5189(9)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 657.78(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Mendipite | |
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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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Berzelius J (1824) Undersokning af tvenne i K. Vet. Academiens Mineralsamling befintlige Mineralier. 2. Saltsyradt bly, Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 1823, 183-189 [view file] |
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Glocker E F (1839) 12. Mendipit, in Grundrib der Mineralogie, mit Einschlub der Geognosie und Petrefactenkunde Schrag Nurnberg 604-605 [view file] |
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Spencer L J, Mountain E D (1923) New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset), Mineralogical Magazine, 20, 67-92 [view file] |
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Wherry E T (1924) Redefinition of species, American Mineralogist, 9, 97-98 [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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Vincent H, Perrault G (1971) Structure cristalline de l'oxyclorure de plomb synthétique Pb3O2Cl2, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 94, 323-331 [view file] |
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Pasero M, Vacchiano D (2000) Crystal structure refinement of mendipite, Pb3O2Cl2, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2000, 563-569 |
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Krivovichev S V, Burns P C (2001) Crystal chemistry of lead oxide chlorides. I. Crystal structures of synthetic mendipite, Pb3O2Cl2, and synthetic damaraite, Pb3O2(OH)Cl, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 801-809 |
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