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Searlesite R060076

Name: Searlesite
RRUFF ID: R060076
Ideal Chemistry: NaBSi₂O₅(OH)₂
Locality: near Cave Spring, Esperalda County, Nevada, USA
Source: Dave Bunk Minerals [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless prismatic single crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060076.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060076

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
	RRUFF File
	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060076.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 7.984(1)Å b: 7.073(1)Å c: 4.9049(6)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 93.994(9)° gamma: 90° Volume: 276.31(9)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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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Searlesite
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]
Larsen E S, Hicks W B (1914) Searlesite, a new mineral, American Journal of Science, 38, 437-440 [view file]
Fahey J J, Axelrod J M (1950) Searlesite from the Green River formation of Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 35, 1014-1020 [view file]
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]
Kravchenko V B (1964) The crystal structure of searlesite, NaBSi₂O₅(OH)₂, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 9, 143-148 [view file]
Ghose S, Wan C (1976) Structural chemistry of borosilicates, part II: Searlesite, NaBSi₂O₅(OH): Absolute configuration, hydrogen locations, and refinement of the structure, American Mineralogist, 61, 123-129 [view file]

REFERENCES for Searlesite

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]

Larsen E S, Hicks W B (1914) Searlesite, a new mineral, American Journal of Science, 38, 437-440 [view file]

Fahey J J, Axelrod J M (1950) Searlesite from the Green River formation of Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 35, 1014-1020 [view file]

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]

Kravchenko V B (1964) The crystal structure of searlesite, NaBSi₂O₅(OH)₂, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 9, 143-148 [view file]

Ghose S, Wan C (1976) Structural chemistry of borosilicates, part II: Searlesite, NaBSi₂O₅(OH): Absolute configuration, hydrogen locations, and refinement of the structure, American Mineralogist, 61, 123-129 [view file]