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Name: Hedenbergite RRUFF ID: R050030 Ideal Chemistry: CaFe2+Si2O6 Locality: Heroult, Ontario, Canada Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4120 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green fragments Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ pyroxene (81) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hedenbergite samples (4) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050030.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.8416(8)Å b: 9.0253(5)Å c: 5.2520(3)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 104.86(1)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 450.89(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hedenbergite | |
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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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Berzelius J J (1819) Hedenbergite, in Nouveau Système de Minéralogie Méquignon-Marvis Paris 269-270 [view file] |
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Dana E S (1904) Monoclinic Section. Pyroxene, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Data 1837-1868, Sixth Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 352-371 [view file] |
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Kuno H, Hess H H (1953) Unit cell dimensions of clinoenstatite and pigeonite in relation to other common clinopyroxenes, American Journal of Science, 251, 741-752 |
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Nolan J (1969) Physical properties of synthetic and natural pyroxenes in the system diopside-hedenbergite-acmite, Mineralogical Magazine, 37, 216-229 [view file] |
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Rutstein M S, Yund R A (1969) Unit-cell parameters of synthetic diopside-hedenbergite solid solutions, American Mineralogist, 54, 238-245 [view file] |
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Cameron M, Sueno S, Prewitt C T, Papike J J (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of acmite, diopside, hedenbergite, jadeite, spodumene, and ureyite, American Mineralogist, 58, 594-618 [view file] |
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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] |
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Ohashi Y, Burnham C W, Finger L W (1975) The effect of Ca-Fe on the clinopyroxene crystal structure, American Mineralogist, 60, 423-434 [view file] |
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Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file] |
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Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file] |
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Raudsepp M, Hawthorne F C, Turnock A C (1990) Evaluation of the Rietveld method for the characterization of fine-grained products of mineral synthesis: the diopside-hedenbergite join, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 93-109 [view file] |
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Inoue A, Utada M (1991) Pumpellyite and related minerals from hydrothermally altered rocks at the Kamikita area, northern Honshu Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 255-270 [view file] |
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Nakano T (1991) An antipathetic relation between the hedenbergite and johannsenite components in skarn clinopyroxene from the Kagata tungsten deposit, central Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 427-434 [view file] |
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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] |
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Redhammer G J, Amthauer G, Lottermoser W, Treutmann W (2000) Synthesis and structural properties of clinopyroxenes of the hedenbergite CaFeSi2O6 - aegirine NaFeSi2O6 solid-solution series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 105-120 |
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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] |
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Heuer M, Huber A L, Bromiley G D, Fehr K T, Bente K (2002) Characterization of synthetic hedenbergite (CaFeSi2O6)petedunnite (CaZnSi2O6) solid solution series by X-ray single crystal diffraction, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 32, 552-563 |
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Redhammer G J, Amthauer G, Roth G, Tippelt G, Lottermoser W (2006) Single crystal X-ray diffraction and temperature dependent 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy on the hedenbergite - aegirine (Ca,Na)(Fe2+,Fe3+)Si2O6 solid solution, American Mineralogist, 91, 1271-1292 [view file] |
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Nestola F, Tribaudino M, Boffa Ballaran T, Liebske C, Bruno M (2007) The crystal structure of pyroxenes along the jadeite-hedenbergite and jadeite-aegirine joins, American Mineralogist, 92, 1492-1501 [view file] |
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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] |
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Abdu Y A, Hawthorne F C (2013) Local structure in C2/c clinopyroxenes on the hedenbergite (CaFeSi2O6)-ferrosilite (Fe2Si2O6) join: A new interpretation for the Mössbauer spectra of Ca-rich C2/c clinopyroxenes and implications for pyroxene exsolution, American Mineralogist, 98, 1227-1234 |
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Mantovani L, Tribaudino M, Mezzadri F, Calestani G, Bromiley G (2013) The structure of (Ca,Co)CoSi2O6 pyroxenes and the Ca-M2+ substitution in (Ca,M2+)M2+Si2O6 pyroxenes (M2+ = Co, Fe, Mg), American Mineralogist, 98, 1241-1252 |
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Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K H, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II), Mineralien Welt, 25, 82-95 |
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Mantovani L, Tribaudino M, Bertoni G, Salvianti G, Bromiley G (2014) Solid solutions and phase transitions in (Ca,M2+)M2+Si2O6 pyroxenes (M2+ = Co, Fe, Mg), American Mineralogist, 99, 704-711 |
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Tribaudino M, Mantovani L (2014) Thermal expansion in C2/c pyroxenes: a review and new high-temperature structural data for a pyroxene of composition (Na0.53Ca0.47)(Al0.53Fe0.47)Si2O6 (Jd53Hd47), Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 311-324 |
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Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203 |
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Nagashima M, Nishio-Hamane D (2018) Transmission electron microscopy study of the epitaxial association of hedenbergite whiskers with babingtonite, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 23-33 |
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