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Name: Merwinite RRUFF ID: R070195 Ideal Chemistry: Ca3Mg(SiO4)2 Locality: Commercial Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA Source: California Institute of Technology CIT-14405 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light gray massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Aphthitalite (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070195.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 13.2913(3)Å b: 5.3067(3)Å c: 9.3446(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 92.134(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 658.65(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Merwinite | |
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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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Larsen E S, Foshag W F (1921) Merwinite, a new calcium magnesium orthosilicate from Crestmore, California, American Mineralogist, 6, 143-148 [view file] |
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Phemister J, Nurse R W, Bannister F A, (1942) Merwinite as an artificial mineral, Mineralogical Magazine, 26, 225-231 [view file] |
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Osborn E F (1943) The compound merwinite (3CaO·MgO·2SiO2) and its stability relations within the system CaOMgOSiO2 (preliminary report), Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 26, 321-332 |
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Roy D M (1956) Subsolidus data for the join Ca2SiO4CaMgSiO4 and the stability of merwinite, Mineralogical Magazine, 31, 187-194 [view file] |
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Moore P B, Araki T (1972) Atomic arrangement of merwinite, Ca3Mg[SiO4]2, an unusual dense-packed structure of geophysical interest, American Mineralogist, 57, 1355-1374 [view file] |
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Moore P B (1973) Bracelets and pinwheels: A topological-geometrical approach to the calcium orthosilicate and alkali sulfate structures, American Mineralogist, 58, 32-42 [view file] |
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Zedgenizov D A, Shatskiy A, Ragozin A L, Kagi H, Shatsky V S (2014) Merwinite in diamond from São Luiz, Brazil: A new mineral of the Ca-rich mantle environment, American Mineralogist, 99, 547-550 [view file] |
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