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Name: Lanarkite RRUFF ID: R080116 Ideal Chemistry: Pb2O(SO4) Locality: Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland Source: William W. Pinch [view label] [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Cream colored, elongated prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R080116.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 13.685(7)Å b: 5.672(3)Å c: 7.024(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 115.79(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 490.9(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Lanarkite | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Lanarkite, plomb carbonaté rhomboédrique, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 366-367 [view file] |
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Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] |
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Sahl K (1970) Zur kristallstruktur von lanarkit, Pb2O(SO4), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 132, 99-117 [view file] |
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