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Name: Natroboltwoodite RRUFF ID: R060880 Ideal Chemistry: Na(UO2)(SiO3OH)·H2O Locality: Alluaiv Mountain, Lovozero, Russia Source: Michael Scott S100960 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale yellow massive, X-ray diffraction indicates that this is amorphous Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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REFERENCES for Natroboltwoodite | |
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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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Chernikov A A, Shaskin D P, Gavrilova I N (1975) Sodium boltwoodite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 221, 195-197 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Pabst A, Cabri L J (1976) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 61, 1053-1056 [view file] |
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Burns P C (1998) The structure of boltwoodite and implications of solid solution toward sodium boltwoodite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 1069-1075 [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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Plášil J, Škoda R, Fatková K (2022) Crystallization of uranyl silicate natroboltwoodite during an experimental dissolution of the mineral yttrialite-(Y): Crystal structure and Raman spectroscopy, Crystal Growth and Design, 22, 1202-1211 |
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