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Name: Eosphorite RRUFF ID: R060293 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O Locality: Mawi area, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan Source: Herb Obodda 094 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Orange brown prismatic crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Childrenite (12) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Eosphorite samples (6) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060293.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.9364(4)Å b: 10.4428(8)Å c: 13.488(1)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 977.02(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Eosphorite | |
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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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Brush G J, Dana E S (1878) On a new and remarkable mineral locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut; with a description of several new species occurring there. First Paper., American Journal of Science and Arts, 116, 33-46; 114-123 [view file] |
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Hurlbut C S (1950) Childrenite - eosphorite series, American Mineralogist, 35, 793-805 [view file] |
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Barnes W H, Shore V C (1951) The childrenite-eosphorite problem, American Mineralogist, 36, 509-510 [view file] |
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Hanson A W (1960) The crystal structure of eosphorite, Acta Crystallographica, 13, 384-384 |
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Fransolet A M (1980) The eosphorite-childrenite series associated with the Li-Mn-Fe phosphate minerals from the Buranga pegmatite, Rwanda, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1015-1023 [view file] |
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Hoyos M A, Calderon T (1993) New structural and spectroscopic data for eosphorite, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 329-336 [view file] |
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Karfunkel J, Chaves M L S C, Banko A, Irran E (1997) Ernstite and eosphorite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, The Mineralogical Record, 28, 489-493 |
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Costa G M D, Scholz R, Karfunkel J, Bermanec V, Chaves M L D S C (2005) Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy on natural eosphorite-childrenite-ernstite samples, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 714-720 |
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Diego Gatta G, Nénert G, Vignola P (2013) Coexisting hydroxyl groups and H2O molecules in minerals: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of eosphorite, MnAlPO4(OH)2·H2O, American Mineralogist, 98, 1297-1301 |
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Frost R L, Xi Y, Scholz R, López A, Fernandes Lima R M, Moraes Ferreira C (2013) Vibrational spectroscopic characterization of the phosphate mineral series eosphorite - childrenite - (Mn,Fe)Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O), Vibrational Spectroscopy, 67, 14-21 |
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Alboom A V, Resende V G D, Costa G M D, Grave E D (2015) Mössbauer spectroscopic study of natural eosphorite, [(Mn,Fe)AlPO4(OH)2H2O], American Mineralogist, 100, 580-587 |
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Behal D, Röska B, Park S H, Pedersen B, Benka G, Pfleiderer C, Wakabayashi Y (2017) The first study of antiferromagnetic eosphorite-childrenite series (Mn1xFex)AlP(OH)2H2O (x=0.5), Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 428, 17-27 |
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