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Name: Minium RRUFF ID: P001241 Ideal Chemistry: Pb2+2Pb4+O4 Locality: Virtual Source: ScottLab P001241 Owner: Mike Scott Description: PURPLE OpenSource 20190319 Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy |
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Mineral Group: [ Minium (6) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Minium samples (3) ] |
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REFERENCES for Minium | |
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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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Smithson J (1806) Account of a discovery of native minium, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 96, 267-268 [view file] |
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Gross S T (1943) The crystal structure of Pb3O4, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 65, 1107-1110 |
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Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 |
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Gavarri J R, Calvarin G, Weigel D (1975) Oxydes de plomb. II. Etude structurale à 5 K de la phase orthorhombique de loxyde Pb3O4, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 14, 91-98 |
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Gavarri J R, Weigel D (1975) Oxydes de plomb. I. structure cristalline du minium Pb3O4, à température ambiante (293 K), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 13, 252-257 |
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Gavarri J R, Weigel D, Hewat A W (1978) Oxydes de plomb. IV. Evolution structurale de l´oxyde Pb3O4 entre 240 et 5°K et mécanisme de la transition, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 23, 327-339 |
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Bosi F, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2023) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) - Newsletter 73, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 397-402 [view file] |
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