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Name: Ferrostrunzite RRUFF ID: R100079 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O Locality: Hornerstown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA Source: Jeff Weissman [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial sprays of colorless acicular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Strunzite (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R100079.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.051(8)Å b: 9.816(7)Å c: 7.310(4)Å alpha: 91.03(2)° beta: 96.68(3)° gamma: 115.70(3)° Volume: 643.6(6)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Ferrostrunzite | |
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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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Peacor D R, Dunn P J, Simmons W B (1983) Ferrostrunzite, the ferrous iron analogue of strunzite from Mullica Hill, New Jersey, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1983, 524-528 |
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Dunn P J, Fleischer M, Francis C A, Langley R H, Kissin S A, Shigley J E, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1984) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 69, 810-815 [view file] |
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van Tassel R, de Grave E (1992) Ferrostrunzite from Arnsberg, Sauerland, Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1992, 207-212 |
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Frost R L, Martens W N, Kloprogge T, Williams P A (2002) Vibrational spectroscopy of the basic manganese and ferric phosphate minerals: strunzite, ferrostrunzite and ferristrunzite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2002, 481-496 |
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Frost R L, Weier M, Lyon W G (2004) Metavivianite an intermediate mineral phase between vivianite, and ferro/ferristrunzite - a Raman spectroscopic study, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2004, 228-240 [link] |
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Grey I E, Kampf A R (2018) Zeolitic water in strunzite-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 291-299 |
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