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Name: Kröhnkite RRUFF ID: R060111 Ideal Chemistry: Na2Cu(SO4)2·2H2O Locality: Chuquicamata, Chile Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 275 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green bladed crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Roselite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Kröhnkite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060111.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.8037(5)Å b: 12.6571(9)Å c: 5.5128(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 108.415(6)° gamma: 90° Volume: 384.23(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Kröhnkite | |
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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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Domeyko I (1879) Kronnkit, in Mineralojía de Chile Libreria Central de Servat I CA. Santiago, Chile 250-252 [view file] |
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Palache C, Warren C H (1908) Kröhnkite, Natrochalcite, American Journal of Science, 26, 342-348 [view file] |
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Palache C, Warren C H (1908) Kröhnkite, natrochalcite (a new mineral), and other sulphates from Chile, American Journal of Science, 176, 342-348 [view file] |
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Dahlman B (1952) The crystal structures of kröhnkite, CuNa2(SO4)2·2H2O and brandtite, MnCa2(AsO4)2·2H2O, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 1, 339-366 |
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Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of kröhnkite, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 1753-1755 |
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Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443 |
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Majzlan J, Zittlau A H, Grevel K, Schliesser J, Woodfield B F, Dachs E, Števko M, Chovan M, Plášil J, Sejkora J, Milovská S (2015) Thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria of the secondary copper minerals libethenite, olivenite, pseudomalachite, kröhnkite, cyanochroite, and devilline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 937-960 |
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Siidra O I, Lukina E A, Nazarchuk E V, Depmeier W, Bubnova R S, Agakhanov A A, Avdontseva E Y, Filatov S K, Kovrugin V M (2018) Saranchinaite, Na2Cu(SO4)2, a new exhalative mineral from Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, and a product of the reversible dehydration of kröhnkite, Na2Cu(SO4)2(H2O)2, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 257-274 [view file] |
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