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Name: Calzirtite RRUFF ID: R080084 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Zr5Ti2O16 Locality: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil Source: Luiz Menezes Owner: RRUFF Description: Black rounded crystals associated with dark brown phlogopite, green granular diopside and black magnetite octahedra Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Calzirtite (1) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R080084.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 15.214(2)Å b: 15.214(2)Å c: 10.136(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2346.0(4)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Calzirtite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file] |
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Pyatenko Y A, Pudovkina Z V (1961) The crystal structure of calcirtite; a new derivative structure of CaF2-CeO2 type, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 6, 155-157 [view file] |
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Zdorik T B, Sidorenko G A, Bykova A V (1961) A new titanozirconate of calcium-calzirtite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 137, 681-684 [view file] |
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Bulakh A G, Anastasenko G F, Dakhiya L M (1967) Calzirtite from carbonates of Northern Siberia, American Mineralogist, 52, 1880-1885 [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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Rossell H J (1982) Calzirtite - A fluorite-related superstructure, Acta Crystallographica, B38, 593-595 |
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Sinclair W, Eggleton R A, Laughlin G M (1986) Structure refinement of calzirtite from Jacupiranga, Brazil, American Mineralogist, 71, 815-818 [view file] |
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Rastsvetaeva R K, Pushcharovskii D Y, Spiridonov E M, Gekimyants V M (1995) Crystal structure of ordered calzirtite Ca2Zr5Ti2O16, Crystallography Reports, 40, 746-748 [view file] |
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Callegari A, Mazzi F, Ungaretti P (1997) The crystal structure of orthorhombic calzirtite from Val Malenco (Italy), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1997, 467-480 |
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