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Name: Baotite RRUFF ID: R060251 Ideal Chemistry: Ba4(Ti,Nb,W)8O16(SiO3)4Cl Locality: Baiyun-Obo mine, Inner Mongolia, China Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brownish-purple colored cleavage fragments associated with clear brewsterite and blue richterite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Baotite (2) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Baotite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060251.9 | |||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | |||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 19.998(2)Å b: 19.998(2)Å c: 5.8982(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2358.7(7)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Baotite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1960) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 45, 753-756 [view file] |
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Simonov V I (1960) Baotite - a mineral with [Si4O12] metasilicate rings, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 5, 523-525 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 464-468 [view file] |
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Semenov E I, Weng-hsing H, Kapitonova T A (1961) Baotite, a new niobium mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 136, 915-916 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Nekrasov Y V, Ponomarev V I, Simonov V I, Kheiker D M (1969) Refinement of the atomic structure of baotite and the isomorphic relationships in this mineral, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 14, 508-514 [view file] |
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