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Name: Kurchatovite RRUFF ID: R130074 Ideal Chemistry: CaMgB2O5 Locality: Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau, Buriatia Republic, Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia Source: Igor Pekov Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale gray crystals with good cleavage, associated with white frolovite and yellow wurtzite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R130074.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 36.389(4)Å b: 11.181(1)Å c: 5.5150(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2243.9(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Kurchatovite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1966) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 51, 1815-1820 [view file] |
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Malinko S V, Lisitsyn A E, Dorofeeva K A, Ostavskaya I V, Shashkin D P (1966) Kurchatovite, a new mineral, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 95, issue 2 203-209 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 326-330 [view file] |
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Callegari A, Mazzi F, Tadini C (2003) Modular aspects of the crystal structures of kurchatovite and clinokurchatovite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 277-282 |
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Pankova Y A, Krivovichev S V, Pekov I V, Grew E S, Yapaskurt V O (2018) Kurchatovite and clinokurchatovite, ideally CaMgB2O5: An example of modular polymorphism, Minerals, 8, 332 [view file] |
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