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|   | Name: Sanbornite RRUFF ID: R060489 Ideal Chemistry: BaSi2O5 Locality: Big Creek, Fresno County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S100272 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless cleavage plate Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | |
| Quick search: [ All Sanbornite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060489.1 | ||||||
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| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 4.6351(4)Å    b: 7.6932(8)Å    c: 13.5290(4)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 482.43(5)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Sanbornite | |
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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] | |
| Rogers A F (1932) Sanbornite, a new barium silicate mineral from Mariposa County, California, American Mineralogist, 17, 161-172 [view file] | |
| Douglass R M (1958) The crystal structure of sanbornite, BaSi2O5, American Mineralogist, 43, 517-536 [view file] | |
| Hesse K F, Liebau F (1980) Crystal chemistry of silica-rich barium silicates. III. Refinement of the crystal structures of the layer silicates Ba2(Si4O10) (l) (Sanbornite), and Ba2(Si4O10) (h), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 153, 33-41 [view file] | |
| Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] | |
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