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Cristobalite R061064

Name: Cristobalite
RRUFF ID: R061064
Ideal Chemistry: SiO₂
Locality: Ellora Caves, India
Source: Harvard Mineralogical Museum 97849
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless single crystals, octahedra and groups of octahedra, some have transformed to quartz. Sample used in Downs and Palmer (1994)
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Cristobalite (11) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R061064.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Si_1.00O₂·0.11H₂O ; trace amounts of Al and Na; H₂O by difference, verified by Raman spectroscopy
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R061064

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R061064.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.9717(4)Å b: 4.9717(4)Å c: 6.9223(3)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 171.10(1)Å³ Crystal System: tetragonal

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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Cristobalite
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]
vom Rath G (1887) Ueber Cristobalit vom Cerro S. Cristóbal bei Pachuca (Mexico), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1887, 198-199 [view file]
Murdoch J (1942) Crystallographic notes: cristobalite, stephanite, natrolite, American Mineralogist, 27, 500-506 [view file]
Van Valkenburg A, Buie B F (1945) Octahedral cristobalite with quartz paramorphs from Ellora Caves, Hyderabad State, India, American Mineralogist, 30, 526-535 [view file]
Flörke V O W (1955) Strukturanomalien bei Tridymit und Cristobalit, Berichte der Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft., 32, 369-381
Flörke V O W (1957) Über die röntgen-mineralanalyse und die thermische ausdehnung von cristobalit and tridymit und über die zusammensetzung von silikamassen, Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft, 34, 343-390
Dollase W A (1965) Reinvestigation of the structure of low cristobalite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 369-377
Appleman D E, Nissen H U, Stewart D B, Clark J R, Dowty E, Huebner J S (1971) Studies of lunar plagioclases, tridymite, and cristobalite, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 117-133 [view file]
Jones J B, Segnit E R (1972) Genesis of cristobalite and tridymite at low temperatures, Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 18, 419-422
Mason B (1972) Lunar tridymite and cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1530-1535 [view file]
Leadbetter A J, Smith T W, Wright A F (1973) Structure of high cristobalite, Nature Physical Science, 244, 125-126
Peacor D P (1973) High-temperature single-crystal study of the cristobalite inversion, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 274-298 [view file]
Peacor D R (1973) High-temperature single-crystal study of the cristobalite inversion, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 274-298
Cohen L H, Klement W (1975) Differential thermal analysis investigation of the high-low cristobalite inversion under hydrostatic pressure to 7 kbar, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 58, 206-208
Pluth J J, Smith J V, Faber J (1985) Crystal structure of low cristobalite at 10, 293, and 473 K: Variation of framework geometry with temperature, Journal of Applied Physics, 57, 1045-1049
de Jong B H W S, van Hoek J, Veeman W S, Manson D V (1987) X-ray diffraction and ²⁹Si magic-angle-spinning NMR of opals: incoherent long- and short-range order in opal-CT, American Mineralogist, 72, 1195-1203 [view file]
Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974
Hatch D M, Ghose S (1991) The α-ß transition in cristobalite, SiO₂, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 17, 554-562
Downs R T, Palmer D C (1994) The pressure behavior of α cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 79, 9-14 [view file]
Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by X-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116
Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by x-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116 [view file]
Palmer D C, Finger L W (1994) Pressure-induced phase transition in cristobalite: An X-ray powder diffraction study to 4.4 GPa, American Mineralogist, 79, 1-8 [view file]
Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794
Elzea J M, Rice S B (1996) TEM and X-ray diffraction evidence for cristobalite and tridymite stacking sequences in opal, Clays and Clay Minerals, 44, 492-500
Dove M T, Craig M S, Keen D A, Marshall W G, Redfern S A T, Trachenko K O, Tucker M G (2000) Crystal structure of the high-pressure monoclinic phase-II of cristobalite, SiO₂, Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 569-576 [view file]
Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636
Huang L, Durandurdu M, Kieffer J (2006) Transformation pathways of silica under high pressure, Nature Materials, 5, 977-981
Garg N, Sharma S M (2007) Classical molecular dynamical simulations of high pressure behavior of alpha cristobalite (SiO₂), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 19, 456201
Liang Y, Miranda C R, Scandolo S (2007) Tuning oxygen packing in silica by nonhydrostatic pressure, Physical Review Letters, 99, 215504-4
Donadio D, Martonak R, Raiteri P, Parrinello M (2008) Influence of temperature and anisotropic pressure on the phase transitions in α-cristobalite, Physical Review Letters, 100, 165502-4
Dera P, Lazarz J D, Prakapenka V B, Barkley M, Downs R T (2011) New insights into the high-pressure polymorphism of SiO₂ cristobalite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38, 517-529
Jackson J C, Horton Jr. J W, Chou I, Belkin H E (2011) Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, American Mineralogist, 96, 81-88
Poswal H K, Garg N, Somayazulu M, Sharma S M (2013) Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO₄, American Mineralogist, 98, 285-291
Matsui M, Sato T, Funamori N (2014) Crystal structures and stabilities of cristobalite-helium phases at high pressures, American Mineralogist, 99, 184-189
Seddio A M, Korotev R L, Jolliff B L, Wang A (2015) Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1533-1543
Nattrass C, Horwell C J , Damby D E , Brown D, Stone V (2017) The effect of aluminium and sodium impurities on the in vitro toxicity and pro-inflammatory potential of cristobalite, Environmental Research, 159, 164-175
Arasuna A, Kigawa M, Fujii S, Endo T, Takahashi K, Okuno M (2018) Structural characterization of the body frame and spicules of a glass sponge, Minerals, 8, 88 [view file]
Nesbitt H W, Bancroft G M, Henderson G S (2018) Temperature dependence of Raman shifts and line widths for Q⁰ and Q² crystals of silicates, phosphates, and sulphates, American Mineralogist, 103, 966-976
Novembre D, Pace C, Gimeno D (2018) Synthesis and characterization of wollastonite-2M by using a diatomite precursor, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 95-110
Sirotkina E A, Bindi L, Bobrov A V, Tamarova A, Pushcharovsky D Y, Irifune T (2018) X-ray single-crystal structural characterization of Na₂MgSiO₄ with cristobalite-type structure syntheised at 22 GPa and 1800 °C, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 485-489
Takada A, Glaser K J, Bell R G, Catlow C R A (2018) Molecular dynamics study of tridymite, IUCrJ, 5, 325-334
Lee S, Xu H (2019) Using powder XRD and pair distribution function to determine anisotropic atomic displacement parameters of orthorhombic tridymite and tetragonal cristobalite, Acta Crystallographica, B75, S2052520619000933
Schipper C I, Rickard W D A, Reddy S M, Saxey D W, Castro J M, Fougerouse D, Quadir Z, Conway C, Prior D J, Lilly K (2020) Volcanic SiO₂-cristobalite: A natural product of chemical vapor deposition, American Mineralogist, 105, 510-524
Di Benedetto F, Giaccherini A, Romanelli M, Montegrossi G, Belluso E, Capella S, Zoleo A, Arcangeli G, Marinaccio A, Gottardo O, Capacci F (2021) A study of radicals in industrial raw cristobalite powders, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 48, 9
Cavosie A J, Rickard W D A, Evans N J, Rankenburg K, Roberts M, Macris C A, Koeberl C (2022) Origin of β-cristobalite in Libyan Desert glass: The hottest naturally occurring silica polymorph?, American Mineralogist, 107, 1325-1340

REFERENCES for Cristobalite

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]

vom Rath G (1887) Ueber Cristobalit vom Cerro S. Cristóbal bei Pachuca (Mexico), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1887, 198-199 [view file]

Murdoch J (1942) Crystallographic notes: cristobalite, stephanite, natrolite, American Mineralogist, 27, 500-506 [view file]

Van Valkenburg A, Buie B F (1945) Octahedral cristobalite with quartz paramorphs from Ellora Caves, Hyderabad State, India, American Mineralogist, 30, 526-535 [view file]

Flörke V O W (1955) Strukturanomalien bei Tridymit und Cristobalit, Berichte der Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft., 32, 369-381

Flörke V O W (1957) Über die röntgen-mineralanalyse und die thermische ausdehnung von cristobalit and tridymit und über die zusammensetzung von silikamassen, Deutschen Keramischen Gesellschaft, 34, 343-390

Dollase W A (1965) Reinvestigation of the structure of low cristobalite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 369-377

Appleman D E, Nissen H U, Stewart D B, Clark J R, Dowty E, Huebner J S (1971) Studies of lunar plagioclases, tridymite, and cristobalite, Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference, 1, 117-133 [view file]

Jones J B, Segnit E R (1972) Genesis of cristobalite and tridymite at low temperatures, Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 18, 419-422

Mason B (1972) Lunar tridymite and cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1530-1535 [view file]

Leadbetter A J, Smith T W, Wright A F (1973) Structure of high cristobalite, Nature Physical Science, 244, 125-126

Peacor D P (1973) High-temperature single-crystal study of the cristobalite inversion, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 274-298 [view file]

Peacor D R (1973) High-temperature single-crystal study of the cristobalite inversion, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 274-298

Cohen L H, Klement W (1975) Differential thermal analysis investigation of the high-low cristobalite inversion under hydrostatic pressure to 7 kbar, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 58, 206-208

Pluth J J, Smith J V, Faber J (1985) Crystal structure of low cristobalite at 10, 293, and 473 K: Variation of framework geometry with temperature, Journal of Applied Physics, 57, 1045-1049

de Jong B H W S, van Hoek J, Veeman W S, Manson D V (1987) X-ray diffraction and ²⁹Si magic-angle-spinning NMR of opals: incoherent long- and short-range order in opal-CT, American Mineralogist, 72, 1195-1203 [view file]

Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974

Hatch D M, Ghose S (1991) The α-ß transition in cristobalite, SiO₂, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 17, 554-562

Downs R T, Palmer D C (1994) The pressure behavior of α cristobalite, American Mineralogist, 79, 9-14 [view file]

Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by X-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116

Elzea J M, Odom I E, Miles W J (1994) Distinguishing well ordered opal-CT and opal-C from high temperature cristobalite by x-ray diffraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 286, 107-116 [view file]

Palmer D C, Finger L W (1994) Pressure-induced phase transition in cristobalite: An X-ray powder diffraction study to 4.4 GPa, American Mineralogist, 79, 1-8 [view file]

Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794

Elzea J M, Rice S B (1996) TEM and X-ray diffraction evidence for cristobalite and tridymite stacking sequences in opal, Clays and Clay Minerals, 44, 492-500

Dove M T, Craig M S, Keen D A, Marshall W G, Redfern S A T, Trachenko K O, Tucker M G (2000) Crystal structure of the high-pressure monoclinic phase-II of cristobalite, SiO₂, Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 569-576 [view file]

Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636

Huang L, Durandurdu M, Kieffer J (2006) Transformation pathways of silica under high pressure, Nature Materials, 5, 977-981

Garg N, Sharma S M (2007) Classical molecular dynamical simulations of high pressure behavior of alpha cristobalite (SiO₂), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 19, 456201

Liang Y, Miranda C R, Scandolo S (2007) Tuning oxygen packing in silica by nonhydrostatic pressure, Physical Review Letters, 99, 215504-4

Donadio D, Martonak R, Raiteri P, Parrinello M (2008) Influence of temperature and anisotropic pressure on the phase transitions in α-cristobalite, Physical Review Letters, 100, 165502-4

Dera P, Lazarz J D, Prakapenka V B, Barkley M, Downs R T (2011) New insights into the high-pressure polymorphism of SiO₂ cristobalite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38, 517-529

Jackson J C, Horton Jr. J W, Chou I, Belkin H E (2011) Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, American Mineralogist, 96, 81-88

Poswal H K, Garg N, Somayazulu M, Sharma S M (2013) Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO₄, American Mineralogist, 98, 285-291

Matsui M, Sato T, Funamori N (2014) Crystal structures and stabilities of cristobalite-helium phases at high pressures, American Mineralogist, 99, 184-189

Seddio A M, Korotev R L, Jolliff B L, Wang A (2015) Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1533-1543

Nattrass C, Horwell C J , Damby D E , Brown D, Stone V (2017) The effect of aluminium and sodium impurities on the in vitro toxicity and pro-inflammatory potential of cristobalite, Environmental Research, 159, 164-175

Arasuna A, Kigawa M, Fujii S, Endo T, Takahashi K, Okuno M (2018) Structural characterization of the body frame and spicules of a glass sponge, Minerals, 8, 88 [view file]

Nesbitt H W, Bancroft G M, Henderson G S (2018) Temperature dependence of Raman shifts and line widths for Q⁰ and Q² crystals of silicates, phosphates, and sulphates, American Mineralogist, 103, 966-976

Novembre D, Pace C, Gimeno D (2018) Synthesis and characterization of wollastonite-2M by using a diatomite precursor, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 95-110

Sirotkina E A, Bindi L, Bobrov A V, Tamarova A, Pushcharovsky D Y, Irifune T (2018) X-ray single-crystal structural characterization of Na₂MgSiO₄ with cristobalite-type structure syntheised at 22 GPa and 1800 °C, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 485-489

Takada A, Glaser K J, Bell R G, Catlow C R A (2018) Molecular dynamics study of tridymite, IUCrJ, 5, 325-334

Lee S, Xu H (2019) Using powder XRD and pair distribution function to determine anisotropic atomic displacement parameters of orthorhombic tridymite and tetragonal cristobalite, Acta Crystallographica, B75, S2052520619000933

Schipper C I, Rickard W D A, Reddy S M, Saxey D W, Castro J M, Fougerouse D, Quadir Z, Conway C, Prior D J, Lilly K (2020) Volcanic SiO₂-cristobalite: A natural product of chemical vapor deposition, American Mineralogist, 105, 510-524

Di Benedetto F, Giaccherini A, Romanelli M, Montegrossi G, Belluso E, Capella S, Zoleo A, Arcangeli G, Marinaccio A, Gottardo O, Capacci F (2021) A study of radicals in industrial raw cristobalite powders, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 48, 9

Cavosie A J, Rickard W D A, Evans N J, Rankenburg K, Roberts M, Macris C A, Koeberl C (2022) Origin of β-cristobalite in Libyan Desert glass: The hottest naturally occurring silica polymorph?, American Mineralogist, 107, 1325-1340