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Name: Hydrotalcite RRUFF ID: R060527 Ideal Chemistry: Mg6Al2CO3(OH)16(H2O)4 Locality: Jacupiranga Pegmatite, Sao Paulo State, Brazil Source: Michael Scott S100217 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Orange hexagonal prisms topped with steep pyramids. 2H polytype Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Hydrotalcite (22) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hydrotalcite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060527.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 3.037(3)Å b: 3.037(3)Å c: 15.08(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 120.51(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Hydrotalcite | |
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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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Frondel C (1941) Constitution and polymorphism of the pyroaurite and sjögrenite groups, American Mineralogist, 26, 295-315 [view file] |
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Caillère S (1945) Sur l'hydrotalcite de snarum (Norvège), Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 67, 411-419 [view file] |
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Ross G J, Kodama H (1967) Properties of a synthetic magnesium-aluminum carbonate hydroxide and its realtionship to magnesium-aluminum double hydroxide, manasseite and hydrotalcite, American Mineralogist, 52, 1036-1047 [view file] |
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Allmann R, Jespen H P (1969) Die struktur des hydrotalkits, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1969, 544-551 |
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Taylor H F W (1973) Crystal structures of some double hydroxide minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 39, 377-389 [view file] |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Bookin A S, Cherkashin V I, Drits V A (1993) Polytype diversity of the hydrotalcite-like minerals II. determination of the polytypes of experimentally studied varieties, Clays and Clay Minerals, 41, 558-564 [view file] |
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Bookin A S, Drits V A (1993) Polytype Diversity of the Hydrotalcite-like minerals I. Possible polytypes and their diffraction features, Clays and Clay Minerals, 41, 551-557 [view file] |
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Bellotto M, Rebours B, Clause O, Lynch J, Bazin D, Elkaïm E (1996) A reexamination of hydrotalcite crystal chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 100, 8527-8534 |
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Rousselot I, Taviot-Gueho C, Leroux F, Leone P, Palvadeau P, Besse J (2002) Insights on the structural chemistry of hydrocalumite and hydrotalcite-like materials: investigation of the series Ca2M3+(OH)6Cl·2H2O (M3+: Al3+, Ga3+, Fe3+, and Sc3+) by x-ray powder diffraction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 167, 137-144 |
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Frost R L, Weier M L, Kloprogge J T (2003) Raman spectroscopy of some natural hydrotalcites with sulphate and carbonate in the interlayer, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 760-768 |
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Lozano R P, Rossi C, La Iglesia A, Matesanz E (2012) Zaccagnaite-3R, a new Zn-Al hydrotalcite polytype from El Soplao cave (Cantabria, Spain), American Mineralogist, 97, 513-523 [view file] |
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Mills S J, Christy A G, Génin J -M R, Kameda T, Colombo F (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1289-1336 [view file] |
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Mills S J, Christy A G, Kampf A R, Housley R M, Favreau G, Boulliard J -C, Bourgoin V (2012) Zincalstibite-9R: the first nine-layer polytype with the layered double hydroxide structure-type, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1337-1345 [view file] |
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Theiss F L, Ayoko G A, Frost R L (2013) Stichtite a review, Clay Minerals, 48, 143-148 [view file] |
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Mills S J, Christy A G, Schmitt R (2016) The creation of neotypes for hydrotalcite, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 1023-1029 [view file] |
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Zhitova E S, Krivovichev S V, Pekov I, Greenwell H C (2019) Crystal chemistry of natural layered double hydroxides. 5. Single-crystal structure refinement of hydrotalcite, [Mg6Al2(OH)16](CO3)(H2O)4, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 269-280 [view file] |
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