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Cryolite R120026

Name: Cryolite
RRUFF ID: R120026
Ideal Chemistry: Na₂NaAlF₆
Locality: Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Source: Donald Doell [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless, pseudo-octahedral crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Perovskite (44) ]

Quick search: [ All Cryolite samples (3) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R120026

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R120026.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.392(4)Å b: 5.550(4)Å c: 7.739(5)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90.18(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 231.58(6)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Cryolite
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]
Abilgaard P C (1799) Norwegische Titanerze und andre neue Fossilien, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 2, 502-502 [view file]
Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 28-28 [view file]
Náray-Szabó S, Sasvári K (1938) Die struktur des kryoliths Na₃AlF₆, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 99, 27-31 [view file]
Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of cryolite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 377-382 [view file]
Ross K C, Mitchell R H, Chakhmouradian A R (2003) The crystal structure of synthetic simmonsite, Na₂LiAlF₆, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 172, 95-101
Zhou Q, Kennedy B J (2004) High-temperature powder synchrotron diffraction studies of synthetic cryolite Na₃AlF₆, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 654-659
Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file]

REFERENCES for Cryolite

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]

Abilgaard P C (1799) Norwegische Titanerze und andre neue Fossilien, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 2, 502-502 [view file]

Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 28-28 [view file]

Náray-Szabó S, Sasvári K (1938) Die struktur des kryoliths Na₃AlF₆, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 99, 27-31 [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of cryolite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 377-382 [view file]

Ross K C, Mitchell R H, Chakhmouradian A R (2003) The crystal structure of synthetic simmonsite, Na₂LiAlF₆, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 172, 95-101

Zhou Q, Kennedy B J (2004) High-temperature powder synchrotron diffraction studies of synthetic cryolite Na₃AlF₆, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 654-659

Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file]