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Name: Edenite RRUFF ID: R060029 Ideal Chemistry: NaCa2Mg5(Si7Al)O22(OH)2 Locality: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4226 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black prismatic Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ amphibole (107) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Edenite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060029.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.9067(3)Å b: 18.079(2)Å c: 5.3091(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 105.077(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 918.14(8)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Edenite | |
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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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Glocker E F (1839) IX. Amphibolite 5. Edenische Hornblende oder Edenit, in Grundriss der Mineralogie mit Einschluss der Geognosie und Petrefactenkunde Verlag von Johann Leonhard Schrag Nürnberg 410-410 [view file] |
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Leake B E (1978) Nomenclature of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 63, 1023-1052 [view file] |
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Kearns L E, Kite L E, Leavens P B, Nelen J A (1980) Fluorine distribution in the hydrous silicate minerals of the Franklin Marble, Orange County, New York, American Mineralogist, 65, 557-562 |
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Benimoff A I, Benoit P H, Moore P B, Sclar C B (1991) A unique manganese-rich silicic edenite in the Grenville marble, Fowler, New York, American Mineralogist, 76, 1431-1433 |
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Leake B E, Woolley A R, Arps C E S, Birch W D, Gilbert M C, Grice J D, Hawthorne F C, Kato A, Kisch H J, Krivovichev V G, Linthout K, Laird J, Mandarino J A, Maresch W V, Nickel E H, Rock N M S, Schumacher J C, Smith D C, Stephenson N C N, Ungaretti L, Whittaker E J W, Youzhi G (1997) Nomenclature of amphiboles: report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 219-246 [view file] |
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Robert J L, Della Ventura G, Hawthorne F C (1999) Near-infrared study of short-range disorder of OH and F in monoclinic amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 84, 86-91 [view file] |
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Brown J M, Abramson E H (2016) Elasticity of calcium and calcium-sodium amphiboles, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 261, 161-171 |
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