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|   |   | Name: Sidwillite RRUFF ID: R080047 Ideal Chemistry: MoO3·2H2O Locality: Freedom No. 2 mine, Marysvale District (Marysvale Uranium area), Piute County, Utah, USA Source: Joe Marty JM-5110 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Aggregates or individual blue, yellow-green, or olive green transparent euhedral crystals, associated white or milky raydemarkite (pseudomorph after sidwillite). Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R080047 | ||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 10.643(3)   Å    b: 13.905(5)  Å    c: 10.529(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.85(2) ° gamma: 90° Volume: 1557.5(1.4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||
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| REFERENCES for Sidwillite | |
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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] | |
| Lindqvist I (1950) The crystal structure of the yellow molybdic acid, MoO3·2H2O, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 4, 650-657 [view file] | |
| Krebs B (1972) Die kristallstruktur von MoO3·2H2O, Acta Crystallographica, B28, 2222-2231 | |
| Cesbron F, Ginderow D (1985) La sidwillite, MoO3·2H2O; une nouvelle espèce minérale de Lake Como, Colorado, U.S.A., Bulletin de Minéralogie, 108, 813-823 | |
| Hawthorne F C, Bladh K W, Burke E A J, Ercit S, Grew E S, Grice J D, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Schedler R A, Shigley J E (1986) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 71, 1543-1548 [view file] | |
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