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Kainite R100021

Name: Kainite
RRUFF ID: R100021
Ideal Chemistry: KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O
Locality: Leopoldshall, Stassfurt, Stassfurt Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Source: Michael Scott S105209 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless grains associated with carnallite R070291 and pentahydrite R100022
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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RRUFF ID:

R100021

Wavelength:

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:

R100021.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 19.764(2)Å b: 16.256(1)Å c: 9.547(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 94.938(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 3055.9(8)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Kainite
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]
Zincken C (1865) Ueber ein neues Salz von Leopoldshall bei Stassfurth, Berg- und Huttenmannische Zeitung, 24, 79-80 [view file]
Schaller W T, Henderson E P (1932) Mineralogy of drill cores from the potash field of New Mexico and Texas, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 833, 1-124 [view file]
Robinson P D, Fang J H, Ohya Y (1972) The crystal structure of kainite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1325-1332 [view file]
Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18 [view file]
Borisov A S, Siidra O I, Ugolkov V L, Kuznetsov A N, Firsova V A, Charkin D O, Platonova N V, Pekov I V (2022) Complex hydrogen bonding and thermal behaviour over a wide temperature range of kainite KMg(SO₄)Cl⋅2.75H₂O, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 37-48

REFERENCES for Kainite

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]

Zincken C (1865) Ueber ein neues Salz von Leopoldshall bei Stassfurth, Berg- und Huttenmannische Zeitung, 24, 79-80 [view file]

Schaller W T, Henderson E P (1932) Mineralogy of drill cores from the potash field of New Mexico and Texas, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 833, 1-124 [view file]

Robinson P D, Fang J H, Ohya Y (1972) The crystal structure of kainite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1325-1332 [view file]

Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18 [view file]

Borisov A S, Siidra O I, Ugolkov V L, Kuznetsov A N, Firsova V A, Charkin D O, Platonova N V, Pekov I V (2022) Complex hydrogen bonding and thermal behaviour over a wide temperature range of kainite KMg(SO₄)Cl⋅2.75H₂O, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 37-48