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Name: Wurtzite RRUFF ID: R130069 Ideal Chemistry: ZnS Locality: Merelani Hills (Mererani), Lelatema Mountains, Arusha Region, Tanzania Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Reddish brown blocky crystals, polytype wurtzite-4H Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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| Mineral Group: [ Wurtzite (20) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Wurtzite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R130069.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 3.849(2)Å b: 3.849(2)Å c: 12.575(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 161.34(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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| REFERENCES for Wurtzite | |
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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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Friedel C (1861) Sur le dimorphisme du sulfure de zinc, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, 52, 983-985 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1948) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 33, 653-654 [view file] |
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Frondel C, Palache C (1950) Three new polymorphs of zinc sulfide, American Mineralogist, 35, 29-42 [view file] |
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Mloszewski M J, Saha A K, Nuffield E W (1957) Manganoan ferroan wurtzite from Llallagua, Bolivia (II), The Canadian Mineralogist, 6, 136-139 [view file] |
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Sokhor M I, Glukhov V P (1965) Silicon carbides with the wurtzite structure, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 10, 341-343 [view file] |
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Scott S D, Barnes H L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Nonstoichiometric phase changes in sphalerite and wurtzite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 306-306 [view file] |
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Brafman O, Mitra S S (1968) Raman effect in wurtzite- and zinc-blende-type ZnS single crystals, Physical Review, 171, 931-934 |
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Arguello C A, Rousseau D L, Porto S P S (1969) First-order Raman effect in wurtzite-type crystals, Physical Review, 181, 1351-1363 |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Hollenbaugh D W, Carlson E H (1983) The occurrence of wurtzite polytypes in eastern Ohio, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 697-703 [view file] |
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Seal R R, Cooper B J, Craig J R (1985) Anisotropic sphalerite of the Elmwood-Gordonsville deposits, Tennessee, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 83-88 [view file] |
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Kisi E H, Elcombe M M (1989) υ parameters for the wurtzite structure of ZnS and ZnO using powder neutron diffraction, Acta Crystallographica, C45, 1867-1870 |
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Ueno T, Scott S D (1991) Solubility of gallium in sphalerite and wurtzite at 800°C and 900°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 143-148 [view file] |
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Xu Y-N, Ching W Y (1993) Electronic, optical, and structural properties of some wurtzite crystals, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter, 48, 4335-4351 |
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Ueno T, Scott S D, Kojima S (1996) Inversion between sphalerite- and wurtzite-type stuctures in the system Zn–Fe–Ga–S, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 949-958 [view file] |
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Chao G Y, Gault R A (1998) The occurrence of two rare polytypes of wurtzite, 4H and 8H, at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 775-778 [view file] |
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Ulian G, Moro D, Valdrè G (2020) Thermodynamic and thermoelastic properties of wurtzite-ZnS by density functional theory, American Mineralogist, 105, 1212-1222 |
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