Enstatite R100093 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Enstatite R100093

Name: Enstatite
RRUFF ID: R100093
Ideal Chemistry: Mg₂Si₂O₆
Locality: Hunan Province, China
Source: William W. Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Massive green polished slab
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ pyroxene (81) ]

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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Raman Mode Analysis

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RRUFF ID:

R100093

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100093.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 18.287(4)Å b: 8.843(1)Å c: 5.215(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 843.3(4)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

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 Enstatite
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]
Kenngott A (1855) Mineralogische Notizen, betreffend die bekannten Species: Karstenit, Dolomit, Millerit, Turmalin, Galaktit, Wasser, Plagionit, Diopsid, Zinkit, Calcit und Felsöbanyt, sowie zwei neue: den Enstatit im Geschlechte der Augit-Spathe und den Pseudophit im Geschlechte der Serpentin-Steatite, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 16, 152-179 [view file]
Warren B E, Modell D I (1930) The structure of enstatite MgSiO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 75, 1-14 [view file]
Kuno H (1954) Study of orthopyroxenes from volcanic rocks, American Mineralogist, 39, 30-46
Howie R A (1963) Cell parameters of orthopyroxenes, Mineralogical Society of America: Special Papers, 1, 213-222 [view file]
Binns R A (1970) Pryoxenes from non-carbonaceous chondritic meteorites, Mineralogical Magazine, 37, 649-669 [view file]
Perry C H, Agrawal D K, Anastassakis E, Lowndes R P, Tornberg N E (1972) Far infrared and Raman spectroscopic investigations of lunar materials from Apollo 11, 12, 14, and 15, Proceedings of the Third Lunar Science Conference, 3, 3077-3095 [view file]
Turnock A C, Lindsley D H, Grover J E (1973) Synthesis and unit cell parameters of Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 58, 50-59 [view file]
Dunn P J (1975) On gem orthopyroxenes: enstatite and bronzite, Gems & Gemology, 15, 118-122 [view file]
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Veblen D R, Buseck P R, Burnham C W (1977) Asbestiform chain silicates: New minerals and structural groups, Science, 198, 359-365 [view file]
Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file]
Ohashi, Y. (1984) Polysynthetically-twinned structures of enstatite and wollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 10, 217-229
Ghose S, Schomaker V, Mcmullan R K (1986) Enstatite, Mg₂Si₂O₆ - a neutron-diffraction refincement of the crystal structure and a rigid-body analysis of the thermal variation, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 176, 159-175 [view file]
Wicks F J (1986) Lizardite and its parent enstatite: a study by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 775-788 [view file]
Tazzoli V, Domeneghetti M C (1987) Crystal-Chemistry of Natural and Heated Aluminous Orthopyroxenes, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 131-139
Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]
Angel R J, Gasparik T, Finger L W (1989) Crystal structure of a Cr²⁺-bearing pyroxene, American Mineralogist, 74, 599-603 [view file]
Angel RJ, Chopelas A, Ross NL (1992) Stability of high-density clinoenstatite at upper-mantle pressures, Nature, 358, 322-324
Domeneghetti M C, Molin G M, Stimpfl M, Tribaudino M (1995) Orthopyroxene from the Serra de Mage meteorite: Structure refinement and estimation of C2/c pyroxene contributions to apparent Pbca diffraction violations, American Mineralogist, 80, 923-929 [view file]
Ford F D, Skippen G B (1997) Petrology of the Flinton Creek metaperidotites: enstatite - magnesite and anthophyllite - magnesite assemblages from the Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1221-1236 [view file]
Huang E, Chen C H, Huang T, Lin E H, Xu J (2000) Raman spectroscopic characteristics of Mg-Fe-Ca pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 85, 473-479 [view file]
Ulmer P, Stalder R (2001) The Mg(Fe)SiO₃ orthoenstatite-clinoenstatite transitions at high pressures and temperatures determined by Raman-spectroscopy on quenched samples, American Mineralogist, 86, 1267-1274 [view file]
Wang A, Jolliff B L, Haskin L A, Kuebler K E, Viskupic K M (2001) Characterization and comparison of structural and compositional features of planetary quadrilateral pyroxenes by Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 86, 790-806 [view file]
Weng Y H, Presnall D C (2001) The system diopside - forsterite - enstatite at 5.1 GPa: a ternary model for melting of the mantle, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 299-308 [view file]
Jiang D, Fujino K, Tomioka N, Hosoya T, Das K (2002) High temperature X-ray diffraction study of enstatite up to the melting point, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 97, 20-31 [view file]
Tribaudino M, Nestola F (2002) Average and local structure in P2₁/c clinopyroxenes along the join diopside-enstatite (CaMgSi₂O₆-Mg₂Si₂O₆), European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 549-555
Lin C C (2003) Pressure-induced metastable phase transition in orthoenstatite (MgSiO₃) at room temperature: a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 174, 403-411
Nestola F, Tribaudino M (2003) The structure of Pbca orthopyroxenes along the join diopside-enstatite (CaMgSi₂O₆-Mg₂Si₂O₆), European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 365-371
Lin C C (2004) Pressure-induced polymorphism in enstatite (MgSiO₃) at room temperature: clinoenstatite and orthoenstatite, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 65, 913-921
Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E12006 [link]
Cámara F, Iezzi G, Tiepolo M, Oberti R (2006) The crystal chemistry of lithium and Fe³⁺ in synthetic orthopyroxene, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 475-483
Nestola F, Gatta G D, Ballaran T B (2006) The effect of Ca substitution on the elastic and structural behavior of orthoenstatite, American Mineralogist, 91, 809-815 [view file]
Zhang M, Hui Q, Lou X J, Redfern S A T, Salje E K H, Tarantino S C (2006) Dehydroxylation, proton migration, and structural changes in heated talc: An infrared spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 91, 816-825 [view file]
Smyth J R, Mierdel K, Keppler H, Langenhorst F, Dubrovinsky L, Nestola F (2007) Crystal chemistry of hydration in aluminous orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 92, 973-976 [view file]
Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Balić-Žunić T, Secco L, Dal Negro A (2008) The high-pressure behavior of an Al- and Fe-rich natural orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 93, 644-652 [view file]
Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485
Stalder R, Kronz A, Schmidt B C (2009) Raman spectroscopy of synthetic (Mg,Fe)SiO₃ single crystals. An analytical tool for natural orthopyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 27-32
Periotto B, Balić-Žunić T, Nestola F, Katerinopoulou A, Angel R J (2012) Re-investigation of the crystal structure of enstatite under high-pressure conditions, American Mineralogist, 97, 1741-1748 [view file]
Zhang J S, Dera P, Bass J D (2012) A new high-pressure phase transition in natural Fe-bearing orthoenstatite, American Mineralogist, 97, 1070-1074 [view file]
Jacob D, Palatinus L, Cuvillier P, Leroux H, Domeneghetti C, Cámara F (2013) Ordering state in orthopyroxene as determined by precession electron diffraction, American Mineralogist, 98, 1526-1534 [view file]
Zhang J S, Reynard B, Montagnac G, Wang R C, Bass J D (2013) Pressure-induced Pbca-P2₁/c phase transition of natural orthoenstatite: Compositional effect and its geophysical implications, American Mineralogist, 98, 986-992 [view file]
Liermann H P, Konȏpková Z, Morgenroth W, Glazyrin K, Bednarčik J, McBride E E, Petitgirard S, Delitz J T, Wendt M, Bican Y, Ehnes A, Schwark I, Rothkirch A, Tischer M, Heuer J, Schulte-Schrepping H, Kracht T, Franz H (2015) The extreme contitions beamline P02.2 and the extreme contitions science infrastructure at PETRA III, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 22, 1-17
Scandolo L, Mazzucchelli M L, Alvaro M, Nestola F, Pandolfo F, Domeneghetti M C (2015) Thermal expansion behaviour of orthopyroxenes: the role of the Fe-Mn substitution, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 71-87 [view file]
Dohmen R, Heege J H, Becker H, Chakraborty S (2016) Fe-Mg interdiffusion in orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 101, 2210-2221
Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203
Ohi S, Miyake A (2016) Phase transitions between high- and low-temperature orthopyroxene in the Mg₂Si₂O₆-Fe₂Si₂O₆ system, American Mineralogist, 101, 1414-1422
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]
Yang Y, Liu W, Qi Z, Wang Z , Smyth J R , Xia Q (2019) Re-configuration and interaction of hydrogen sites in olivine at high temperature and high pressure, American Mineralogist, 104, 878-889

REFERENCES for Enstatite

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]

Kenngott A (1855) Mineralogische Notizen, betreffend die bekannten Species: Karstenit, Dolomit, Millerit, Turmalin, Galaktit, Wasser, Plagionit, Diopsid, Zinkit, Calcit und Felsöbanyt, sowie zwei neue: den Enstatit im Geschlechte der Augit-Spathe und den Pseudophit im Geschlechte der Serpentin-Steatite, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 16, 152-179 [view file]

Warren B E, Modell D I (1930) The structure of enstatite MgSiO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 75, 1-14 [view file]

Kuno H (1954) Study of orthopyroxenes from volcanic rocks, American Mineralogist, 39, 30-46

Howie R A (1963) Cell parameters of orthopyroxenes, Mineralogical Society of America: Special Papers, 1, 213-222 [view file]

Binns R A (1970) Pryoxenes from non-carbonaceous chondritic meteorites, Mineralogical Magazine, 37, 649-669 [view file]

Perry C H, Agrawal D K, Anastassakis E, Lowndes R P, Tornberg N E (1972) Far infrared and Raman spectroscopic investigations of lunar materials from Apollo 11, 12, 14, and 15, Proceedings of the Third Lunar Science Conference, 3, 3077-3095 [view file]

Turnock A C, Lindsley D H, Grover J E (1973) Synthesis and unit cell parameters of Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 58, 50-59 [view file]

Dunn P J (1975) On gem orthopyroxenes: enstatite and bronzite, Gems & Gemology, 15, 118-122 [view file]

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]

Veblen D R, Buseck P R, Burnham C W (1977) Asbestiform chain silicates: New minerals and structural groups, Science, 198, 359-365 [view file]

Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file]

Ohashi, Y. (1984) Polysynthetically-twinned structures of enstatite and wollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 10, 217-229

Ghose S, Schomaker V, Mcmullan R K (1986) Enstatite, Mg₂Si₂O₆ - a neutron-diffraction refincement of the crystal structure and a rigid-body analysis of the thermal variation, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 176, 159-175 [view file]

Wicks F J (1986) Lizardite and its parent enstatite: a study by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 775-788 [view file]

Tazzoli V, Domeneghetti M C (1987) Crystal-Chemistry of Natural and Heated Aluminous Orthopyroxenes, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 131-139

Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]

Angel R J, Gasparik T, Finger L W (1989) Crystal structure of a Cr²⁺-bearing pyroxene, American Mineralogist, 74, 599-603 [view file]

Angel RJ, Chopelas A, Ross NL (1992) Stability of high-density clinoenstatite at upper-mantle pressures, Nature, 358, 322-324

Domeneghetti M C, Molin G M, Stimpfl M, Tribaudino M (1995) Orthopyroxene from the Serra de Mage meteorite: Structure refinement and estimation of C2/c pyroxene contributions to apparent Pbca diffraction violations, American Mineralogist, 80, 923-929 [view file]

Ford F D, Skippen G B (1997) Petrology of the Flinton Creek metaperidotites: enstatite - magnesite and anthophyllite - magnesite assemblages from the Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1221-1236 [view file]

Huang E, Chen C H, Huang T, Lin E H, Xu J (2000) Raman spectroscopic characteristics of Mg-Fe-Ca pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 85, 473-479 [view file]

Ulmer P, Stalder R (2001) The Mg(Fe)SiO₃ orthoenstatite-clinoenstatite transitions at high pressures and temperatures determined by Raman-spectroscopy on quenched samples, American Mineralogist, 86, 1267-1274 [view file]

Wang A, Jolliff B L, Haskin L A, Kuebler K E, Viskupic K M (2001) Characterization and comparison of structural and compositional features of planetary quadrilateral pyroxenes by Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 86, 790-806 [view file]

Weng Y H, Presnall D C (2001) The system diopside - forsterite - enstatite at 5.1 GPa: a ternary model for melting of the mantle, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 299-308 [view file]

Jiang D, Fujino K, Tomioka N, Hosoya T, Das K (2002) High temperature X-ray diffraction study of enstatite up to the melting point, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 97, 20-31 [view file]

Tribaudino M, Nestola F (2002) Average and local structure in P2₁/c clinopyroxenes along the join diopside-enstatite (CaMgSi₂O₆-Mg₂Si₂O₆), European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 549-555

Lin C C (2003) Pressure-induced metastable phase transition in orthoenstatite (MgSiO₃) at room temperature: a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 174, 403-411

Nestola F, Tribaudino M (2003) The structure of Pbca orthopyroxenes along the join diopside-enstatite (CaMgSi₂O₆-Mg₂Si₂O₆), European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 365-371

Lin C C (2004) Pressure-induced polymorphism in enstatite (MgSiO₃) at room temperature: clinoenstatite and orthoenstatite, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 65, 913-921

Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E12006 [link]

Cámara F, Iezzi G, Tiepolo M, Oberti R (2006) The crystal chemistry of lithium and Fe³⁺ in synthetic orthopyroxene, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 475-483

Nestola F, Gatta G D, Ballaran T B (2006) The effect of Ca substitution on the elastic and structural behavior of orthoenstatite, American Mineralogist, 91, 809-815 [view file]

Zhang M, Hui Q, Lou X J, Redfern S A T, Salje E K H, Tarantino S C (2006) Dehydroxylation, proton migration, and structural changes in heated talc: An infrared spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 91, 816-825 [view file]

Smyth J R, Mierdel K, Keppler H, Langenhorst F, Dubrovinsky L, Nestola F (2007) Crystal chemistry of hydration in aluminous orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 92, 973-976 [view file]

Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Balić-Žunić T, Secco L, Dal Negro A (2008) The high-pressure behavior of an Al- and Fe-rich natural orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 93, 644-652 [view file]

Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485

Stalder R, Kronz A, Schmidt B C (2009) Raman spectroscopy of synthetic (Mg,Fe)SiO₃ single crystals. An analytical tool for natural orthopyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 27-32

Periotto B, Balić-Žunić T, Nestola F, Katerinopoulou A, Angel R J (2012) Re-investigation of the crystal structure of enstatite under high-pressure conditions, American Mineralogist, 97, 1741-1748 [view file]

Zhang J S, Dera P, Bass J D (2012) A new high-pressure phase transition in natural Fe-bearing orthoenstatite, American Mineralogist, 97, 1070-1074 [view file]

Jacob D, Palatinus L, Cuvillier P, Leroux H, Domeneghetti C, Cámara F (2013) Ordering state in orthopyroxene as determined by precession electron diffraction, American Mineralogist, 98, 1526-1534 [view file]

Zhang J S, Reynard B, Montagnac G, Wang R C, Bass J D (2013) Pressure-induced Pbca-P2₁/c phase transition of natural orthoenstatite: Compositional effect and its geophysical implications, American Mineralogist, 98, 986-992 [view file]

Liermann H P, Konȏpková Z, Morgenroth W, Glazyrin K, Bednarčik J, McBride E E, Petitgirard S, Delitz J T, Wendt M, Bican Y, Ehnes A, Schwark I, Rothkirch A, Tischer M, Heuer J, Schulte-Schrepping H, Kracht T, Franz H (2015) The extreme contitions beamline P02.2 and the extreme contitions science infrastructure at PETRA III, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 22, 1-17

Scandolo L, Mazzucchelli M L, Alvaro M, Nestola F, Pandolfo F, Domeneghetti M C (2015) Thermal expansion behaviour of orthopyroxenes: the role of the Fe-Mn substitution, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 71-87 [view file]

Dohmen R, Heege J H, Becker H, Chakraborty S (2016) Fe-Mg interdiffusion in orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, 101, 2210-2221

Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203

Ohi S, Miyake A (2016) Phase transitions between high- and low-temperature orthopyroxene in the Mg₂Si₂O₆-Fe₂Si₂O₆ system, American Mineralogist, 101, 1414-1422

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]

Yang Y, Liu W, Qi Z, Wang Z , Smyth J R , Xia Q (2019) Re-configuration and interaction of hydrogen sites in olivine at high temperature and high pressure, American Mineralogist, 104, 878-889