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|   |   | Name: Erythrosiderite RRUFF ID: R120084 Ideal Chemistry: K2Fe3+Cl5·H2O Locality: Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy Source: Robert Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Reddish-yellow unconsolidated grains, associated with yellow or pale yellow salammoniac. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R120084.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 13.613(1)Å    b: 9.735(1)Å    c: 7.0288(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 931.5(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Erythrosiderite | |
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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] | |
| Scacchi A (1872) Notizie preliminari di alcune specie mineralogiche rinvenute nel Vesuvio dopo l'incendio di aprile 1872, Rendiconto dell'Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche (sezione della Societa reale di Napoli), 11, 210-213 [view file] | |
| Scacchi A (1874) Contribuzioni mineralogiche per servire alla storia dell incendio Vesuviano del Mese di Aprile, 1872. Part 2, Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli, Serie II, 6, 1-69 [view file] | |
| Bellanca A (1948) La struttura dell'eritrosiderite, Periodico di Mineralogia, 17, 59-72 | |
| Gabás M, Palacio F, Rodríguez-Carvajal J, Visser D (1995) Magnetic structures of the three-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets K2FeCl5·D2O and Rb2FeCl5·D2O, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 7, 4725-4738 [view file] | |
| Schultz A J, Carlin R L (1995) Single-crystal pulsed neutron diffraction structure of the antiferromagnet K2[FeCl5(H2O)] with and without applied pressure, Acta Crystallographica, B51, 43-47 | |
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