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Name: Stishovite RRUFF ID: R070183 Ideal Chemistry: SiO2 Locality: Synthetic Source: P. Dera Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless fragment Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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Mineral Group: [ Rutile (23) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Stishovite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070183.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.161(3)Å b: 4.161(3)Å c: 2.663(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 46.09(1)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Stishovite | |
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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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Chao E C T, Fahey J J, Littler J, Milton D J (1962) Stishovite, SiO2, a very high pressure new mineral from Meteor Crater, Arizona, Journal of Geophysical Research, 67, 419-421 |
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Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 805-812 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 433-437 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Sinclair W, Ringwood A E (1978) Single crystal analysis of the structure of stishovite, Nature, 272, 714-715 |
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Hill R J, Newton M D, Gibbs G V (1983) A crystal chemical study of stishovite, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 47, 185-200 |
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Endo S, Akai T, Akahama Y, Wakatsuki M, Nakamura T, Tomii Y, Koto K, Ito Y, Tokonami M (1986) High temperature X-ray study of single crystal stishovite synthesized with Li2WO4 as flux, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 13, 146-151 |
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Hemley R J, Mao H K, Chao E C T (1986) Raman spectrum of natural and synthetic stishovite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 13, 285-290 |
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Spackman M A, Hill R J, Gibbs G V (1987) Exploration of structure and bonding in stishovite with Fourier and pseudoatom refinement methods using single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction data, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 14, 139-150 |
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von Czarnowski A, Hübner K (1987) Raman and Infrared investigations of stishovite and their interpretation, Physica Status Solidi, 142, K91-K96 |
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Ross N L, Shu J F, Hazen R M, Gasparik T (1990) High-pressure crystal chemistry of stishovite, American Mineralogist, 75, 739-747 [view file] |
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Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794 |
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Yamanaka T, Fukuda T, Tsuchiya J (2002) Bonding character of SiO2 stishovite under high pressures up to 30 GPa, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 29, 633-641 |
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Ohtani E, Ozawa S, Miyahara M, Ito Y, Mikouchi T, Kimura M, Arai T, Sato K, Hiraga K (2011) Coesite and stishovite in a shocked lunar meteorite, Asuka-881757, and impact events in lunar surface, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 463-466 |
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Mashino I, Ohtani E, Hirao N, Mitsui T, Masuda R, Seto M, Sakai T, Takahashi S, Nakano S (2014) The spin state of iron in Fe3+-bearing Mg-perovskite and its crystal chemistry at high pressure, American Mineralogist, 99, 1555-1561 |
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Kaneko S, Miyahara M, Ohtani E, Arai T, Hirao N, Sato K (2015) Discovery of stishovite in Apollo 15299 sample, American Mineralogist, 100, 1308–1311 |
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Klier K, Spirko J A, Landskron K M (2015) Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite, American Mineralogist, 100, 120-129 |
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Nisr C, Shim S H, Leinenweber K, Chizmeshya A (2017) Raman spectroscopy of water-rich stishovite and dense high-pressure silica up to 55 GPa, American Mineralogist, 102, 2180-2189 |
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Fischer R A, Campbell A J, Chidester B A, Reaman D M, Thompson E C, Pigott J S, Prakapenka V B, Smith J S (2018) Equations of state and phase boundary for stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2, American Mineralogist, 103, 792-802 |
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Tschauner O (2019) High-pressure minerals, American Mineralogist, 104, 1701-1731 |
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Chen H, Leinenweber K, Kunz M, Bechtel H A, Liu Z, Shim S (2020) Phase transformation of hydrous ringwoodite to the lower-mantle phases and the formation of dense hydrous silica, American Mineralogist, 105, 1342-1348 |
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Das P K, Mohn C E, Brodholt J P, Trønnes R G (2020) High-pressure silica phase transitions: Implications for deep mantle dynamics and silica crystallization in the protocol, American Mineralogist, 105, 1014-1020 |
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