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Name: Hydroniumjarosite RRUFF ID: R060402 Ideal Chemistry: (H3O)Fe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6 Locality: Cyprus, Greece Source: American Museum of Natural History 21997 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Tan colored consolidated powder Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Groups: [ alunite (46) ] [ Alunite (20) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060402.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.3153(9)Å b: 7.3153(9)Å c: 16.626(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 770.5(0)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Hydroniumjarosite | |
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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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Arzruni A, Thaddeeff K (1899) Neue Minerale aus Chile, ein neues Vorkommen von Utahit und ein neues Wismuthcarbonat von Schneeberg, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 31, 229-247 [view file] |
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Kubisz J (1960) Hydronium jarosite - (H3O)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6, Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Serie des Sciences Geologiques et Geographiques, 8, 95-99 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 241-244 [view file] |
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Brophy G P, Sheridan M F (1965) Sulfate studies IV: the jarositenatrojarositehydronium jarosite solid solution series, American Mineralogist, 50, 1595-1607 [view file] |
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Jambor J L (1999) Nomenclature of the alunite supergroup, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1323-1341 [view file] |
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Mazlan J, Stevens R, Boerio-Goates J, Woodfield B F, Navrotsky A, Burns P C, Crawford M K, Amos T G (2004) Thermodynamic properties, low-temperature heat-capacity anomalies, and single-crystal X-ray refinement of hydronium jarosite, (H3O)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 518-531 |
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Frost R L, Wills R A, Weier M L, Martens W, Mills S (2006) A Raman spectroscopic study of selected natural jarosites, Spectrochimica Acta, A63, 1-8 |
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Basciano L C, Peterson R C (2007) Jarositehydronium jarosite solid-solution series with full iron site occupancy: Mineralogy and crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 92, 1464-1473 [view file] |
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Basciano L C, Peterson R C (2007) The crystal structure of ammoniojarosite, (NH4)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6 and the crystal chemistry of the ammoniojarosite-hydronium jarosite solid-solution series, Mineralogical Magazine, 71, 427-441 [view file] |
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Basciano L C, Peterson R C (2008) Crystal chemistry of the natrojarosite-jarosite and natrojarosite-hydronium jarosite solid-solution: A synthetic study with full Fe site occupancy, American Mineralogist, 93, 853-862 [view file] |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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Murphy P J, Smith A M L, Hudson-Edwards K A, Dubbin W E, Wright K (2009) Raman and IR spectroscopic studies of alunite-supergroup compounds containing Al, Cr3+, Fe3+ and V3+ at the B site, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 663-681 [view file] |
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Bayliss P, Kolitsch U, Nickel E H, Pring A (2010) Alunite supergroup: recommended nomenclature, Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 919-927 [view file] |
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Gale J D, Wright K, Hudson-Edwards K A (2010) A first-principles determination of the orientation of H3O+ in hydronium alunite, American Mineralogist, 95, 1109-1112 [view file] |
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Plášil J, Škoda R, Fejfarová K, Čejka J, Kasatkin A V, Dušek M, Talla D, Lapčák L, Machovič V, Dini M (2014) Hydroniumjarosite, (H3O)+Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6, from Cerros Pintados, Chile: Single-crystal X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopic study, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 535-547 [view file] |
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Spratt H J, Avdeev M, Pfrunder M C, McMurtrie J, Rintoul L, Martens W N (2014) Location of hydrogen atoms in hydronium jarosite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41, 505-517 |
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Sklute E C, Glotch T D, Piatek J L, Woerner W R, Martone A A, Kraner M L (2015) Optical constants of synthetic potassium, sodium, and hydronium jarosite, American Mineralogist, 100, 1110-1122 |
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