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Wollastonite R040008

Name: Wollastonite
RRUFF ID: R040008
Ideal Chemistry: CaSiO₃
Locality: Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4220 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: 2M polytype. Colorless parallel acicular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Wollastonite (6) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040008.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_1.00Si_1.00O₃; trace amounts of Fe and Mn
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040008

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R040008.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040008.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 15.4141(8)Å b: 7.317(1)Å c: 7.0649(5)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 95.389(5)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 793.3(1)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

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

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

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REFERENCES for Wollastonite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Campmas P J L (1818) Chapitre CX. Des substances cristallisées renfermées dans les laves, in Institution Géologiques par Scipion Breislak, Volume 3 Milan 192-215 [view file]
Leman J (1818) Meionite, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 20, 28-31 [view file]
von Kobell F (1843) Ueber den Spadaït, eine neue Mineralspecies, und über den Wollastonit von Capo di bove, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 30, 467-471 [view file]
von Kobell F (1843) Ueber den Spadait, eine neue Mineral-species, und über den Wollastonit von Capo di bove, Gelehrte Anzeigen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 17, 945-950 [view file]
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]
Bowen N L (1922) Two corrections to new data, American Mineralogist, 7, 64-66 [view file]
Simonen A (1952) Mineralogy of the wollastonites found in Finland, Bulletin de la Commission Géologique de Findlande, 27, 9-18 [view file]
Mamedov K S, Belov N V (1956) The crystal structure of wollastonite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 107, 463-466 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file]
Ringwood A E, Major A (1967) Some high-pressure transformations of geophysical significance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2, 106-110
Trojer F J (1967) Crystal structure of parawollastonite, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 536-536
Trojer F J (1968) The crystal structure of parawollastonite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 127, 291-308 [view file]
Trojer F J (1969) The crystal structure of a high pressure polymorph of CaSiO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 130, 185-206 [view file]
Essene E (1974) High-pressure transformations in CaSiO3, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 45, 247-250
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Ohashi Y, Finger L W (1978) The role of octahedral cations in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry. I. Bustamite, wollastonite, and the pectolite–schizolite–serandite series, American Mineralogist, 63, 274-288 [view file]
Fleischer M, Mandarino J A, Chao G Y (1979) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 64, 652-659 [view file]
Machida K, Adachi G, Shiokawa J, Shimada M, Zoizumi M, Suito K, Onodera A (1982) High-pressure synthesis, crystal structures, and luminescence properties of europium (II) metasilicate and europium (II)-activated calcium and strontium metasilicates, Inorganic Chemistry, 21, 1512-1519
Henmi C, Kawahara A, Henmi K, Kusachi I, Takéuchi Y (1983) The 3T, 4T and 5T polytypes of wollastonite from Kushiro, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, American Mineralogist, 68, 156-163 [view file]
Ohashi, Y. (1984) Polysynthetically-twinned structures of enstatite and wollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 10, 217-229
Kanzaki M, Stebbins J F, Xue X (1991) Characterization of quenched high pressure phases in CaSiO3 system by XRD and 29Si NMR, Geophysical Research Letters, 18, 463-466
Nickel E H (1993) Standardization of polytype suffixes, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 756-756 [view file]
Serghiou G C, Hammack W S (1993) Pressure-induced amorphization of wollastonite (CaSiO3) at room temperature, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 98, 9830
Nickel E H (1994) Standardisation of polytype suffixes, Mineralogy and Petrology, 50, issue 4 293-294
Barbier J, Lévy D (1997) Crystal structures of Ca₅Ge₃O₁₁ and wollastonite-type GaGeO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 212, 519-528
Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S, Tutti F (1997) High-temperature Raman spectra and thermal expansion of wollastonite, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 80, issue 9 2237-2247
Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S (1997) Thermodynamic data for the phases in the CaSiO3 system, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 1181-1191
Richet P, Mysen B, Ingrin J (1998) High-temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of diopside and pseudowollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 401-414 [link]
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]
Akaogi M, Yano M, Tejima Y, Iijima M, Kojitani H (2004) High-pressure transition of diopside and wollastonite: phase equilibria and thermochemistry of CaMgSi2O6, CaSiO3 and CaSi2O5--CaTiSiO5 system, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 143, 145-156
Brenker F E, Vollmer C, Vincze L, Vekemans B, Szymanski A, Janssens K, Szaloki I, Nasdala L, Joswig W, Kaminsky F (2006) CO2-recycling to the deep convecting mantle, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2006, 2006, A39
Buzatu A, Buzgar N (2010) The Raman study of single-chain silicates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 56, 107-125 [view file]
Barkley M C, Downs R T, Yang H (2011) Structure of walstromite, BaCa₂Si₃O₉, and its relationship to CaSiO₃-walstromite and wollastonite-II, American Mineralogist, 96, 797-801 [view file]
Thompson R M, Yang H, Downs R T (2016) Ideal wollastonite and the structural relationship between the pyroxenoids and pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 101, 2544-2553
Grey I E, Keck E, Macrae C M, Glenn A M, Mumme W G, Kampf A R, Cashion J D (2018) Secondary Zn-bearing phosphate minerals associated with alteration of phosphophyllite at Hagendorf-Süd, Bavaria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1007-1020

REFERENCES for Wollastonite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Campmas P J L (1818) Chapitre CX. Des substances cristallisées renfermées dans les laves, in Institution Géologiques par Scipion Breislak, Volume 3 Milan 192-215 [view file]

Leman J (1818) Meionite, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 20, 28-31 [view file]

von Kobell F (1843) Ueber den Spadaït, eine neue Mineralspecies, und über den Wollastonit von Capo di bove, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 30, 467-471 [view file]

von Kobell F (1843) Ueber den Spadait, eine neue Mineral-species, und über den Wollastonit von Capo di bove, Gelehrte Anzeigen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 17, 945-950 [view file]

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]

Bowen N L (1922) Two corrections to new data, American Mineralogist, 7, 64-66 [view file]

Simonen A (1952) Mineralogy of the wollastonites found in Finland, Bulletin de la Commission Géologique de Findlande, 27, 9-18 [view file]

Mamedov K S, Belov N V (1956) The crystal structure of wollastonite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 107, 463-466 [view file]

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

Ringwood A E, Major A (1967) Some high-pressure transformations of geophysical significance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2, 106-110

Trojer F J (1967) Crystal structure of parawollastonite, Naturwissenschaften, 54, 536-536

Trojer F J (1968) The crystal structure of parawollastonite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 127, 291-308 [view file]

Trojer F J (1969) The crystal structure of a high pressure polymorph of CaSiO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 130, 185-206 [view file]

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

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

Ohashi Y, Finger L W (1978) The role of octahedral cations in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry. I. Bustamite, wollastonite, and the pectolite–schizolite–serandite series, American Mineralogist, 63, 274-288 [view file]

Fleischer M, Mandarino J A, Chao G Y (1979) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 64, 652-659 [view file]

Machida K, Adachi G, Shiokawa J, Shimada M, Zoizumi M, Suito K, Onodera A (1982) High-pressure synthesis, crystal structures, and luminescence properties of europium (II) metasilicate and europium (II)-activated calcium and strontium metasilicates, Inorganic Chemistry, 21, 1512-1519

Henmi C, Kawahara A, Henmi K, Kusachi I, Takéuchi Y (1983) The 3T, 4T and 5T polytypes of wollastonite from Kushiro, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, American Mineralogist, 68, 156-163 [view file]

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

Kanzaki M, Stebbins J F, Xue X (1991) Characterization of quenched high pressure phases in CaSiO3 system by XRD and 29Si NMR, Geophysical Research Letters, 18, 463-466

Nickel E H (1993) Standardization of polytype suffixes, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 756-756 [view file]

Serghiou G C, Hammack W S (1993) Pressure-induced amorphization of wollastonite (CaSiO3) at room temperature, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 98, 9830

Nickel E H (1994) Standardisation of polytype suffixes, Mineralogy and Petrology, 50, issue 4 293-294

Barbier J, Lévy D (1997) Crystal structures of Ca₅Ge₃O₁₁ and wollastonite-type GaGeO₃, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 212, 519-528

Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S, Tutti F (1997) High-temperature Raman spectra and thermal expansion of wollastonite, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 80, issue 9 2237-2247

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

Richet P, Mysen B, Ingrin J (1998) High-temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of diopside and pseudowollastonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 401-414 [link]

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]

Akaogi M, Yano M, Tejima Y, Iijima M, Kojitani H (2004) High-pressure transition of diopside and wollastonite: phase equilibria and thermochemistry of CaMgSi2O6, CaSiO3 and CaSi2O5--CaTiSiO5 system, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 143, 145-156

Brenker F E, Vollmer C, Vincze L, Vekemans B, Szymanski A, Janssens K, Szaloki I, Nasdala L, Joswig W, Kaminsky F (2006) CO2-recycling to the deep convecting mantle, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2006, 2006, A39

Buzatu A, Buzgar N (2010) The Raman study of single-chain silicates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 56, 107-125 [view file]

Barkley M C, Downs R T, Yang H (2011) Structure of walstromite, BaCa₂Si₃O₉, and its relationship to CaSiO₃-walstromite and wollastonite-II, American Mineralogist, 96, 797-801 [view file]

Thompson R M, Yang H, Downs R T (2016) Ideal wollastonite and the structural relationship between the pyroxenoids and pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 101, 2544-2553

Grey I E, Keck E, Macrae C M, Glenn A M, Mumme W G, Kampf A R, Cashion J D (2018) Secondary Zn-bearing phosphate minerals associated with alteration of phosphophyllite at Hagendorf-Süd, Bavaria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1007-1020