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Name: Barringerite RRUFF ID: R070439 Ideal Chemistry: (Fe,Ni)2P Locality: Dredged from Tampa Bay harbour, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA Source: Paul Roth [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Silver colored metallic bleb associated with pseudowollastonite. Most likely synthetic. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Barringerite (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070439.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.878(1)Å b: 5.878(1)Å c: 3.476(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 104.01(3)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Barringerite | |
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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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Hendricks S B, Kosting P R (1930) The crystal structure of Fe2P, Fe2N, Fe3N and FeB, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 74, 511-533 [view file] |
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Buseck P R (1969) Phosphide from meteorites: Barringerite, a new iron-nickel mineral, Science, 165, 169-171 |
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Fleischer M (1970) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 55, 317-323 [view file] |
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Carlsson B, Gölin M, Rundqvist S (1973) Determination of the homogenity range and refinement of the crystal structure of Fe2P, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 8, 57-67 |
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Catalono A, Arnott R J, Wold A (1973) Magnetic and crystallographic properties of the system Fe2P1-xAsx, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 7, 262-268 |
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Cervelle B, Cesbron F, Desnoyers C, Gasperin M, Sandrea A (1975) Morphologie et propriétés optiques des phosphures de fer et de nickel FeP et Ni2P, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 98, 289-293 [view file] |
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Fujii H, Komura S, Takeda T, Okamoto T, Ito Y, Akimitsu J (1979) Polarized neutron diffraction study of Fe2P single crystal, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 46, 1616-1621 |
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Dunn P J, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Fleischer M, Francis C A, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Pabst A (1984) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 69, 406-412 [view file] |
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Mikouchi T, Zolensky M, Tachikawa O, Komatsu M, Ivanova M A, Le L, Gounelle M (2006) Electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis of two unusual minerals in carbonaceous chondrites, Lunar and Planetary Science, 37, 1855-1855 |
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Galuskin E V, Kusz J, Galuskina I O, Książek M, Vapnik Y, Zieliński G (2023) Discovery of terrestrial andreyivanovite, FeCrP, and the effect of Cr and V substitution on the low-pressure barringerite-allabogdanite transition, American Mineralogist, 108, 1506-1515 |
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