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Name: Palermoite RRUFF ID: R120141 Ideal Chemistry: Li2SrAl4(PO4)4(OH)4 Locality: Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire, USA Source: Benjamin N. Schumer [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Striated, colorless, elongated prismatic crystals, associated with quartz, radiating childrenite, natropalermoite (R130092), and lefontite (R140539). Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Carminite (8) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Palermoite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R120141.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.577(1)Å b: 15.879(1)Å c: 7.3276(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1347.0(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Palermoite | |
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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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Mrose M E (1953) Palermoite and goyazite, two strontium minerals from the Palermo mine, North Groton, New Hampshire. (Abstract from the 33rd annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America), American Mineralogist, 38, 354-354 [view file] |
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Frondel C, Ito J (1965) Composition of palermoite, American Mineralogist, 50, 777-779 [view file] |
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Moore P B, Araki T (1975) Palermoite, SrLi2[Al4(OH)4(PO4)4]: its atomic arrangement and relationship to carminite, Pb2[Fe4(OH)4(AsO4)4], American Mineralogist, 60, 460-465 [view file] |
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Yakubovich O V, Kotelnikov A R, Suk N I, Chukanov N V (2016) The novel arsenate Na3Al5O2(OH)2(AsO4)4: crystal structure and topological relations with minerals of the palermoite and carminite-attakolite families, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 83-91 |
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Schumer B N, Yang H, Downs R T (2017) Natropalermoite, Na2SrAl4(PO4)4(OH)4, a new mineral isostructural with palermoite, from the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire, USA, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 833-840 [view file] |
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