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Name: Salammoniac RRUFF ID: R061022 Ideal Chemistry: (NH4)Cl Locality: Schoeller mine, Kladno, Bohemia, Czech Republic Source: Michael Scott S100394 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: A crust of colorless tabular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Salammoniac samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R061022.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 3.87662(4)Å b: 3.87662(4)Å c: 3.87662(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 58.259(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Salammoniac | |
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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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Agricola G (1556) Sal-ammoniac, in De Re Metallica, translated by Hoover H C and Hoover L H 1950 Dover New York 560-560 [view file] |
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Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file] |
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Vainshtein B K (1956) Refinement of the structure of the group NH4 in the structure of ammonium chloride, Trudy Instituta Kristallografii Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 12, 18-24 |
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Sirdeshmukh D B, Deshpande V T (1970) X-ray measurement of the thermal expansion of ammonium chloride, Acta Crystallographica, A26, 295-295 |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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