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Name: Preobrazhenskite RRUFF ID: R090040 Ideal Chemistry: Mg3B11O15(OH)9 Locality: Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau Oblast, Kazakhstan Source: Herb Obodda [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless crystal fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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| RRUFF ID: | R090040.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 16.304(4)Å b: 9.189(2)Å c: 10.585(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1585.8(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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| REFERENCES for Preobrazhenskite | |
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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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Yarzhemskii Y Y (1956) Preobrazhenskite - a new borate of the saliferous strata of the Inder uplift, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 111, 1087-1090 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 704-704 [view file] |
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Ostrovskaya I V, Nikitina I B (1969) The formula of preobrazhenskite, Trudy Mineralogicheskogo Muzeya Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 19, 206-209 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1970) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 55, 1067-1073 [view file] |
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Rumanova I M, Razmanova Z P, Belov N V (1972) The crystal structure of preobratschenskite 3MgO·5.5B2O3·4.5H2O = Mg3[B11O14(OH)8HO2], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 16, 518-521 |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1994) Structure and hydrogen bonding in preobrazhenskite, a complex heteropolyhedral borate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 387-396 [view file] |
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