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Name: Shortite RRUFF ID: R040184 Ideal Chemistry: Na2Ca2(CO3)3 Locality: Green River, Wyoming, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 1750 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless single crystal fragments Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Quick search: [ All Shortite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R040184.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.9565(3)Å b: 11.0438(3)Å c: 7.1184(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 389.65(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Shortite | |
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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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Fahey J J (1939) Shortite, a new carbonate of sodium and calcium, American Mineralogist, 24, 514-518 [view file] |
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Wickman F E (1950) The crystal structure of shortite, Ca2Na2(CO3)3, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 1, 95-101 |
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Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na2O·B2O3·6SiO2) and eitelite (Na2O·MgO·2CO2) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327 [view file] |
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Dickens B, Hyman A, Brown W E (1971) Crystal structure of Ca2Na2(CO3)3 (shortite), Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards - A. Physics and Chemistry, 75A, 129-135 |
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Shatskiy A, Gavryushkin P N, Litasov K D, Koroleva O N, Kupriyanov I N, Borzdov Y M, Sharygin I S, Funakoshi K, Palyanov Y N, Ohtani E (2015) Na-Ca carbonates synthesized under upper-mantle conditions: Raman spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction studies, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 175-184 |
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