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Merwinite R070195

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Name: Merwinite
RRUFF ID: R070195
Ideal Chemistry: Ca3Mg(SiO4)2
Locality: Commercial Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA
Source: California Institute of Technology CIT-14405 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Light gray massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Aphthitalite (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070195.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Ca3.00(Mg0.98Fe2+0.02)Σ=1(Si1.00O4)2
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070195
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R070195.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070195.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 13.2913(3)Å    b: 5.3067(3)Å    c: 9.3446(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 92.134(2)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 658.65(3)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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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 Merwinite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

Larsen E S, Foshag W F (1921) Merwinite, a new calcium magnesium orthosilicate from Crestmore, California, American Mineralogist, 6, 143-148   [view file]

Phemister J, Nurse R W, Bannister F A, (1942) Merwinite as an artificial mineral, Mineralogical Magazine, 26, 225-231   [view file]

Osborn E F (1943) The compound merwinite (3CaO·MgO·2SiO2) and its stability relations within the system CaO–MgO–SiO2 (preliminary report), Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 26, 321-332

Roy D M (1956) Subsolidus data for the join Ca2SiO4—CaMgSiO4 and the stability of merwinite, Mineralogical Magazine, 31, 187-194   [view file]

Moore P B, Araki T (1972) Atomic arrangement of merwinite, Ca3Mg[SiO4]2, an unusual dense-packed structure of geophysical interest, American Mineralogist, 57, 1355-1374   [view file]

Moore P B (1973) Bracelets and pinwheels: A topological-geometrical approach to the calcium orthosilicate and alkali sulfate structures, American Mineralogist, 58, 32-42   [view file]

Zedgenizov D A, Shatskiy A, Ragozin A L, Kagi H, Shatsky V S (2014) Merwinite in diamond from São Luiz, Brazil: A new mineral of the Ca-rich mantle environment, American Mineralogist, 99, 547-550   [view file]