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Name: Botallackite RRUFF ID: R070066 Ideal Chemistry: Cu2Cl(OH)3 Locality: Levante mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale greenish blue bladed crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Atacamite (16) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Botallackite samples (2) ] |
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070066.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.718(1)Å b: 6.117(1)Å c: 5.630(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 93.09(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 196.6(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Botallackite | |
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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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Church A H (1865) Notes on a Cornish mineral of the atacamite group, Journal of the Chemical Society, 18, 212-214 [view file] |
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Frondel C (1950) On paratacamite and some related copper chlorides, Mineralogical Magazine, 29, 34-45 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1951) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 36, 381-384 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C (1985) Refinement of the crystal structure of botallackite, Mineralogical Magazine, 49, 87-89 [view file] |
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Pollard A M, Thomas R G, Williams P A (1989) Synthesis and stabilities of the basic copper (II) chlorides atacamite, paratacamite and botallackite, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 557-563 [view file] |
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Scott D A (2000) A review of copper chlorides and related salts in bronze corrosion and as painting pigments, Studies in Conservation, 45, 39-53 |
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Milman V, Winkler B (2001) Prediction of hydrogen positions in complex structures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 216, 99-104 |
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Martens W, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of the basic copper chloride minerals - implications for the study of the copper and brass corrosion and "bronze disease", Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 178, 197-215 |
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Zheng X G, Xu C N (2004) Antiferromagnetic transition in botallackite Cu2Cl(OH)3, Solid State Communications, 131, 509-511 |
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Zheng X G, Mori T, Nishiyama K, Higemoto W, Yamada H, Nishikubo K, Xu C N (2005) Antiferromagnetic transitions in polymorphous minerals of the natural cuprates atacamite and botallackite Cu2Cl(OH)3, Physical Review B, 71, 174404-8 |
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