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|   |   | Name: Clinohedrite RRUFF ID: R120105 Ideal Chemistry: CaZn(SiO4)·H2O Locality: Christmas mine, Christmas, Gila County, Arizona, USA Source: Bob Jenkins Owner: RRUFF Description: Transparent colorless prismatic crystals, associated with blue kinoite and colorless platy junitoite, R120100. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Quick search: [ All Clinohedrite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R120105.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 5.1295(8)Å    b: 15.929(3)Å    c: 5.4182(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 103.466(9)° gamma: 90° Volume: 430.5(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Clinohedrite | |
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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] | |
| Breithaupt J F A (1866) Mineralogische studien. 49. Klinoëdrite, Berg- und Huettenmaenische Zeitung, 25, 181-183 [view file] | |
| Penfield S L, Foote H W (1898) On clinohedrite, a new mineral from Franklin, N.J., American Journal of Science, 155, 289-293 [view file] | |
| Venetopoulos C C, Rentzeperis P J (1976) Redetermination of the crystal structure of clinohedrite, CaZnSiO4·H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 144, 377-392 [view file] | |
| Simonov M A, Belokoneva E L, Yegorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1977) Crystal structure of clinohedrite CaZn[SiO4]·H2O, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 237, 334-338 | |
| Simonov M A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1978) Crystal structures of clinohedrite Ca[ZnSiO4]·H2O and herstmannite (Mn,Mg)Mg(OH)2[ZnSiO4], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 23, 113-114 [view file] | |
| Simonov M A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1978) The crystal structures of clinohedrite Ca[ZnSiO4]·H2O and herstmannite (Mn, Mg)Mg(OH)2[ZnSiO4], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 238, 1348-1350 | |
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