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|   | Name: Kornerupine RRUFF ID: R100155 Ideal Chemistry: (Mg,Fe2+,Al,◻)10(Si,Al,B)5O21(OH,F)2 Locality: Sri Lanka Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless to pale yellow cut gemstone Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | |
| Mineral Group: [ Kornerupine (3) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Kornerupine samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R100155.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 15.986(1)Å    b: 13.732(2)Å    c: 6.7092(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1472.8(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Kornerupine | |
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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] | |
| Lorenzen J (1884) Kornerupin, Meddelelser om Grønland, 7, 19-22 [view file] | |
| Lorenzen J (1886) Untersuchungen grönländischer Mineralien, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 11, 315-318 [view file] | |
| Moore P B, Sen Gupta P K, Schlemper E O (1989) Kornerupine: Chemical crystallography, comparative crystallography, and its cation relation to olivine and to Ni2In intermetallic, American Mineralogist, 74, 642-655 [view file] | |
| Grew E S, Redhammer G J, Amthauer G, Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C, Schmetzer K (1999) Iron in kornerupine: A 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopic study and comparison with single-crystal structure refinement, American Mineralogist, 84, 536-549 [view file] | |
| Wopenka B, Freeman J J, Grew E (1999) Raman spectroscopic identification of B-free and B-rich kornerupine (prismatine), American Mineralogist, 84, 550-554 [view file] | |
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