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|   |   | Name: Litidionite RRUFF ID: R130088 Ideal Chemistry: KNaCuSi4O10 Locality: Mt Vesuvius, Napoli, Italy Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue to green glassy, massive. The two larger fragments are from the 1880 eruption. The smaller fragment is from 1873. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Litidionite (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R130088.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 9.790(2)Å    b: 7.997(2)Å    c: 6.968(2)Å alpha: 114.23(1)° beta: 99.50(1)° gamma: 105.56(1)° Volume: 455.1(1)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Litidionite | |
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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 (1880) Lapilli azzurri del Vesuvio, Rendiconto dell'Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche (sezione della Societa reale di Napoli), 19, 175-179 [view file] | |
| Pozas J M M, Rossi G, Tazzoli V (1975) Re-examination and crystal structure analysis of litidionite, American Mineralogist, 60, 471-474 [view file] | |
| Kawamura K, Kawahara A (1977) The crystal structure of synthetic copper sodium silicate: CuNa2Si4O10, Acta Crystallographica, B33, 1071-1075 | |
| Bayliss P (2015) Mineral nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 775-775 | |
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