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|   |   | Name: Euchlorine RRUFF ID: R070460 Ideal Chemistry: KNaCu3O(SO4)3 Locality: Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure (Main Fracture) eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105976 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Bright green massive crystalline coating Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Euchlorine (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070460.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 18.558(7)Å    b: 9.394(4)Å    c: 14.325(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 113.87(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 2284(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Euchlorine | |
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| 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] | |
| Scacchi E (1884) Sulleuclorina, sulleriocaleo e sul melanotallo, Rendiconto dell'Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche (sezione della Societa reale di Napoli), 23, 158-165 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 1209-1216 [view file] | |
| Scordari F, Stasi F (1990) The crystal structure of euchlorine, NaKCu3O(SO4)3, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 161, 241-253 | |
| Jambor J L, Grew E S (1991) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 76, 299-305 [view file] | |
| Siidra O I, Nazarchuk E V, Zaitsev A N, Lukina E A, Avdontseva E Y, Vergasova L P, Vlasenko N S, Filatov S K, Turner R, Karpov G A (2017) Copper oxosulphates from fumaroles of Tolbachik volcano: puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3- a new mineral species and structure refinements of kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 499-510, 1089 [view file] | |
| Siidra O I, Borisov A S, Lukina E A, Depmeier W, Platonova N V, Colmont M, Nekrasova D O (2019) Reversible hydration/dehydration and thermal expansion of euchlorine, ideally KNaCu3O(SO4)3, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 46, 403-416 | |
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