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Name: Eitelite RRUFF ID: R110214 Ideal Chemistry: Na2Mg(CO3)2 Locality: Westvaco mine, Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA Source: Gunnar Farber [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dirty yellow-brown platy and massive Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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RRUFF ID: | R110214.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.9543(9)Å b: 4.9543(9)Å c: 16.488(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 350.49(9)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Eitelite | |
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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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Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na2O·B2O3·6SiO2) and eitelite (Na2O·MgO·2CO2) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327 [view file] |
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Pabst A (1973) The crystallography and structure of eitelite, Na2Mg(CO3)2, American Mineralogist, 58, 211-217 [view file] |
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Knobloch D, Pertlik F, Zemann J (1980) Crystal structure refinements of buetschliite and eitelite: a contribution to the stereochemistry of trigonal carbonate minerals, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1980, 230-236 |
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Golubkova A, Merlini M, Schmidt M W (2015) Crystal structure, high-pressure, and high-temperature behavior of carbonates in the K2Mg(CO3)2Na2Mg(CO3)2 join, American Mineralogist, 100, 2458-2467 |
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