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Aeschynite-(Y) R060312

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Name: Aeschynite-(Y)
RRUFF ID: R060312
Ideal Chemistry: (Y,Ln,Ca,Th)(Ti,Nb)2(O,OH)6
Locality: Hittero, Vest-Agder, Norway
Source: Herb Obodda 013 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black glassy amorphous, note that a fragment of this sample was heated and is posted at R080045
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Aeschynite (8) ]
Quick search: [ All Aeschynite-(Y) samples (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060312.2
Sample Description: Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Y0.66Th0.10Ca0.08U0.07Fe3+0.07Nd0.02)(Ti1.50Nb0.50)(O5.73(OH)0.27)Σ=6·4.5H2O; trace amounts of Ce, La, Dy; OH estimated by charge balance; H2O by difference
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R060312
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060312.1
Sample Description: Powder, pattern is consistent with a partially metamic sample of aeschynite-(Ce)
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REFERENCES for Aeschynite-(Y)

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

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]

Komkov A I (1959) On minerals of the euxenite-polycrase and blomstrandine-priorite series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 126, 641-644

Aleksandrov V B (1962) The crystal structure of aeschynite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 142, 181-184   [view file]

Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 414-420   [view file]

Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111   [view file]

Fleischer, M (1966) Rare earths in the aeschynite-priorite series. The status of lyndochite, Mineralogical Magazine, 35, 801-809   [view file]

Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158   [view file]

Ewing R C, Krumhansl J L (1974) Natural gamma-ray spectra of euxenite, polycrase and aeschynite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 357-359   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055   [view file]

Bonazzi P, Magnanelli S (1994) Non-metamict Ti-rich aeschynite-(Y) from the Triolet Valley (Western Alps, Italy), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 6, 275-288

Bonazzi P, Menchetti S (1999) Crystal chemistry of aeschynite-(Y) from the Western Alps: residual electron density on difference-Fourier map, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 1043-1049

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

Tomašić N, Gajović A, Bermanec V, Rajić M (2004) Recrystallization of metamict Nb-Ta-Ti-REE complex oxides: a coupled X-ray-diffraction and Raman spectroscopy study of aeschynite-(Y) and polycrase-(Y), The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1847-1857   [view file]

Škoda 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

Ma Q, Zhang A, Lü M, Zhou Y, Qiu Z, Zhou G (2007) Novel class of aeschynite structure LaNbTiO6 - based orange-red phosphors via a modified combustion approach, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 12693-12699

Kan A, Ogawa H (2008) Crystal structural characterization and microwave dielectric properties of Ca(Ta2-xNbx)O6 ceramics, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 47, 7716-7720

Qi X, Liu C M, Kuo C C (2010) Pr3+ doped LaTiNbO6 as a single phosphor for white LEDs, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 492, L61-L63

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

Capitani G C, Mugnaioli E, Guastoni A (2016) What is the actual structure of samarskite-(Y)? A TEM investigation of metamict samarskite from the Garnet Codera dike pegmatite (Central Italian Alps), American Mineralogist, 101, 1679-1690

Capitani G, Mugnaioli E, Gentile P (2018) Submicrometer yttrian zircon coating and arborescent aeschynite microcrystals on truncated bipyramidal anatase: An electron microscopy study of miarolitic cavities in the Cuasso al Monte granophyre (Varese, Italy), American Mineralogist, 103, 480-488