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Name: Euxenite-(Y) RRUFF ID: R080101 Ideal Chemistry: Y(NbTi)O6 Locality: Betafo, Madagascar Source: Michael Scott S101012 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Khaki colored fragment from metamict sample R060856, after heating at T = 1000 C for 24 hours Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Columbite (32) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Euxenite-(Y) samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R080101.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 14.569(1)Å b: 5.5503(3)Å c: 5.1875(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 419.48(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Euxenite-(Y) | |
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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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Scheerer T (1840) Ueber den Euxenit, eine neue Mineralspecies, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 50, 149-153 [view file] |
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Brøgger W C (1906) Die Mineralien der Südnorwegischen Granitpegmatitgänge: Blomstrandin (und Priorit), Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1906, issue 6 1-162 [view file] |
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Lima de Faria, J (1958) Heat treatment of metamict euxenites, polymignites, yttrotantalites, samarskites, pyrochlores, and allanites, Mineralogical Museum, section of the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 3R, 937-942 [view file] |
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Komkov A I (1959) On minerals of the euxenite-polycrase and blomstrandine-priorite series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 126, 641-644 |
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Robinson S C, Loveridge W D, Rimsaite J, Van Peteghem J (1963) Factors involved in discordant ages of euxenite from a Grenville pegmatite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 533-546 [view file] |
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Fleischer, M (1966) Rare earths in the aeschynite-priorite series. The status of lyndochite, Mineralogical Magazine, 35, 801-809 [view file] |
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Ewing R C, Krumhansl J L (1974) Natural gamma-ray spectra of euxenite, polycrase and aeschynite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 357-359 [view file] |
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Ewing R C, Snetsinger K G, Bunch T E (1977) Euxenite from Ampangabé, Madagascar, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 92-96 [view file] |
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Weitzel H, Schröcke H (1980) Kristallstrukturverfeinerungen von euxenit, Y(Nb0.5Ti0.5)2O6, und M-fergusonit, YNbO4, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 152, 69-82 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Paschoal C W A, Moreira R L, Fantini C, Pimenta M A, Surendran K P, Sebastian M T (2003) Raman scattering study of RETiTaO6 dielectric ceramics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 23, 2661-2666 |
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koda R, Novák M (2007) Y,REE,Nb,Ta,Ti-oxide (AB2O6) minerals from REL-REE euxenite-subtype pegmatites of the Třebíč Pluton, Czech Republic; substitutions and fractionation trends, Lithos, 95, 43-57 |
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Annamma J, Shyla J, Manu K M (2011) Structure, microwave dielectric and optical properties of Ln2/3Gd1/3TiNbO6 (Ln=Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm) ceramics, Journal of Materials Science, 22, 776-780 |
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Chukanov N, Pasero M, Aksenov S M, Britvin S N, Zubkova N V, Yike L, Witzke T (2023) Columbite supergroup of minerals: nomenclature and classification, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 18-33 |
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