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Name: Lomonosovite RRUFF ID: R070465 Ideal Chemistry: Na6Na2Ti2Na2Ti2(Si2O7)2(PO4)2O4 Locality: Apatitovyi Tsirk (Apatite Circus), Rasvumchorr Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105790 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light tan platy crystals associated with orthoclase and lamprophyllite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Epistolite (9) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070465.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.3563(6)Å b: 7.081(1)Å c: 14.454(2)Å alpha: 100.585(7)° beta: 96.043(7)° gamma: 90.065(6)° Volume: 535.8(1)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Lomonosovite | |
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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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Fleischer M, Ingerson E (1950) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 35, 1091-1093 [view file] |
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Gerasimovsky V I (1950) Lomonosovite - a new mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 70, 83-86 [view file] |
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Belov N V, Organova N I (1962) Crystal chemistry and mineralogy of the lomonosovite group in the light of the crystal structure of lomonosovite, Geochemistry, 1, 4-13 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Rastsvetaeva R K (1971) Kristallicheskaya struktura lomonosovita Na5Ti2[Si2O7][PO4]O2, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 16, 182-185 |
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Rastsvetaeva R K, Sirota M I, Belov N V (1975) Crystal structure of beta lomonosovite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 20, 158-160 [view file] |
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Belov N V, Gavrilova G S, Solov'eva L P, Khailov A D (1977) The refined structure of lomonosovite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 235, 1064-1067 [view file] |
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Belov N V, Gavrilova G S, Solov'eva L P, Khalilov A D (1977) The refined structure of lomonosovite, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 422-424 |
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Ferraris G, Belluso E, Gula A, Soboleva S V, Ageeva O A, Borutskii B E (2001) A structural model of the layer titanosilicate bornemanite based on seidozerite and lomonosovite modules, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1665-1673 [view file] |
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Sokolova E (2006) From structure topology to chemical composition. I. Structural hierarchy and stereochemistry in titanium disilicate minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1273-1330 [view file] |
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Cámara F, Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C, Abdu Y (2008) From structure topology to chemical composition. IX. Titanium silicates: revision of the crystal chemistry of lomonosovite and murmanite, Group-IV minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 1207-1228 [view file] |
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Lykova I S, Pekov I V, Zubkova N V, Chuckanov N V, Yapaskurt V O, Chervonnaya N A, Zolotarev A A (2015) Crystal chemistry of cation-exchanged forms of epistolite-group minerals, part I. Ag- and Cu-exchanged lomonosovite and Ag-exchanged murmanite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 535-549 |
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Lykova I S, Pekov I V, Zubkova N V, Yapaskurt V O, Chervonnaya N A, Zolotarev A A, Giester G (2015) Crystal structure of cation-exchanged forms of epistolite-group minerals. Part II. Virgrishinite and Zn-exchanged murmanite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 669-682 |
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