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Name: Laihunite RRUFF ID: R110051 Ideal Chemistry: (Fe3+,Fe2+,◻)2(SiO4) Locality: Laihe Fe deposit, Qianshan District, Anshan Prefecture, Liaoning Province, China Source: Pingqu Fu [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Unconsolidated black subhedral grains. Type sample Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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| RRUFF ID: | R110051.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 4.811(3)Å b: 10.242(6)Å c: 17.522(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.01(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 863.4(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Laihunite | |
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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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Ferrifayalite Research Group (1976) Ferrifayalite and its crystal structure, Acta Geologica Sinica, 50, issue 2 161-175 |
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Laihunite Research Group, Guiyang Institute of Geochemistry, Academia Sinica and Geological Team 101 (1976) Laihunite - a new iron silicate mineral, Geochimica, 2, 95-103 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Pabst A, Mandarino J A, Chao G Y (1977) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 62, 1057-1061 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Pabst A (1978) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 63, 424-427 [view file] |
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Shen B, Tamada O, Kitamura M, Morimoto N (1986) Superstructure of laihunite-3M (◻0.40Fe2+0.80Fe3+0.80SiO4), American Mineralogist, 71, 1455-1460 [view file] |
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Tomioka N, Morlok A, Koike C, Köhler M, Grady M (2012) Laihunite in planetary materials: An FTIR and TEM study of oxidized synthetic and meteoritic Fe-rich olivine, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 107, 157-166 |
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Xu H, Shen Z, Konishi H, Fu P, Szlufarska I (2014) Crystal structures of laihunite and intermediate phases between laihunite-1M and fayalite: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study, American Mineralogist, 99, 881-889 |
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Martin A M, Médard E, Devouard B, Keller L P, Righter K, Devidal J L, Rahman Z (2015) Fayalite oxidation processes in Obsidian Cliffs rhyolite flow, Oregon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1153-1164 |
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