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Name: Reedmergnerite RRUFF ID: R060096 Ideal Chemistry: NaBSi3O8 Locality: Dara-i-Pioz, Tadjikistan Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16841 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ feldspar (62) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060096.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.8437(5)Å b: 12.377(1)Å c: 6.8083(5)Å alpha: 93.284(9)° beta: 116.365(9)° gamma: 92.043(8)° Volume: 589.85(7)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Reedmergnerite | |
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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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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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Milton C, Chao E C T, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1960) Reedmergnerite, NaBSi3O8, the boron analogue of albite, from the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 45, 188-199 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 464-468 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Fleet M E (1992) Tetrahedral-site occupancies in reedmergnerite and synthetic boron albite (NaBSi3O8), American Mineralogist, 77, 76-84 [view file] |
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Wunder B, Stefanski J, Wirth R, Gottschalk M (2013) Al-B substitution in the system albite (NaAlSi3O8)-reedmergnerite (NaBSi3O8), European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 499-508 |
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