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|   |   | Name: Tinaksite RRUFF ID: R060375 Ideal Chemistry: K2NaCa2TiSi7O18(OH)O Locality: Chara River area, Murun Massif, northwest Aldan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Source: Michael Scott S100019 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Tan colored long prismatic crystals embedded in purple charoite R060376 Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R060375.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 10.375(2)Å    b: 12.165(2)Å    c: 7.054(1)Å alpha: 90.824(9)° beta: 99.23(1)° gamma: 92.788(8)° Volume: 877.5(4)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Tinaksite | |
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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] | |
| Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] | |
| Rogov Y G, Rogova V P, Voronkov A A, Moleva V A (1965) Tinaksite NaK2Ca2TiSi7O19(OH), a new mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 162, 658-661 [view file] | |
| International Mineralogical Association (1968) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1143-1145 [view file] | |
| Bissert G (1980) Verfeinerung der struktur von tinaksit, Ca2K2NaTiO[Si7O18(OH)], Acta Crystallographica, B36, 259-263 | |
| Lacalamita M, Mesto E, Kaneva E, Scordari F, Pedrazzi G, Vladykin N, Schingaro E (2017) Structure refinement and crystal chemistry of tokkoite and tinaksite from the Murun massif (Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 251-272 | |
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