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Pseudowollastonite R080145

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Name: Pseudowollastonite
RRUFF ID: R080145
Ideal Chemistry: CaSiO3
Locality: Synthetic
Source: Hexiong Yang [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless synthetic crystal fragments from the study by Yang and Prewitt (1999)
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Sample
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RRUFF ID: R080145
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Sample Description: Unoriented Sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R080145.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.843(1)Å    b: 11.882(2)Å    c: 19.662(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90.70(1)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1598.6(4)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Pseudowollastonite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Vogt I H L (1892) Hexagonales Kalksilikat (CaSiO3) und Wollastonit (CaSiO3), 1, in Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Gesetze der Mineralbildung in Schmelzmassen und in den Neovulkanischen Ergussgesteinen Alb. Cammermeyer Verlag Kristiania [Oslo] 56-71   [view file]

Allen E T, White W P, Wright F E (1906) On wollastonite and psuedo-wollastonite. Polymorphic forms of calcium metasilicate, with optical study by F. E. Wright, American Journal of Science, 21, 89-108   [view file]

Ferguson J B, Merwin H E (1919) The ternary system CaO-MgO-SiO2, American Journal of Science, 48, 81-123   [view file]

McLintock W F P (1932) On the metamorphism produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in the Tertiary sediments of south-west Persia, Mineralogical Magazine, 139, 207-226   [view file]

Clark C B (1946) X-ray diffraction data for compounds in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 29, 25-30

Jeffery J W, Heller L (1953) Preliminary X-ray investigation of pseudo-wollastonite, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 807-808

International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263   [view file]

Essene E (1974) High-pressure transformations in CaSiO3, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 45, 247-250

Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S (1997) Thermodynamic data for the phases in the CaSiO3 system, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 1181-1191

Yang H, Prewitt C T (1999) Crystal structure and compressibility of a two-layer polytype of pseudowollastonite (CaSiO3), American Mineralogist, 84, 1902-1905   [view file]

Yang H, Prewitt C T (1999) On the crystal structure of pseudowollastonite (CaSiO3), American Mineralogist, 84, 929-932   [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]

Seryotkin Y V, Sokol E V, Kokh S N (2012) Natural pseudowollastonite: Crystal structure, associated minerals, and geological context, Lithos, 134-135, 75-90