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Name: Pseudowollastonite RRUFF ID: R080145 Ideal Chemistry: CaSiO3 Locality: Synthetic Source: Hexiong Yang [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless synthetic crystal fragments from the study by Yang and Prewitt (1999) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Quick search: [ All Pseudowollastonite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R080145.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 6.843(1)Å b: 11.882(2)Å c: 19.662(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.70(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1598.6(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Pseudowollastonite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Vogt I H L (1892) Hexagonales Kalksilikat (CaSiO3) und Wollastonit (CaSiO3), 1, in Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Gesetze der Mineralbildung in Schmelzmassen und in den Neovulkanischen Ergussgesteinen Alb. Cammermeyer Verlag Kristiania [Oslo] 56-71 [view file] |
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Allen E T, White W P, Wright F E (1906) On wollastonite and psuedo-wollastonite. Polymorphic forms of calcium metasilicate, with optical study by F. E. Wright, American Journal of Science, 21, 89-108 [view file] |
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Ferguson J B, Merwin H E (1919) The ternary system CaO-MgO-SiO2, American Journal of Science, 48, 81-123 [view file] |
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McLintock W F P (1932) On the metamorphism produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in the Tertiary sediments of south-west Persia, Mineralogical Magazine, 139, 207-226 [view file] |
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Clark C B (1946) X-ray diffraction data for compounds in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 29, 25-30 |
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Jeffery J W, Heller L (1953) Preliminary X-ray investigation of pseudo-wollastonite, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 807-808 |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Essene E (1974) High-pressure transformations in CaSiO3, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 45, 247-250 |
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Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S (1997) Thermodynamic data for the phases in the CaSiO3 system, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 1181-1191 |
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Yang H, Prewitt C T (1999) Crystal structure and compressibility of a two-layer polytype of pseudowollastonite (CaSiO3), American Mineralogist, 84, 1902-1905 [view file] |
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Yang H, Prewitt C T (1999) On the crystal structure of pseudowollastonite (CaSiO3), American Mineralogist, 84, 929-932 [view file] |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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Seryotkin Y V, Sokol E V, Kokh S N (2012) Natural pseudowollastonite: Crystal structure, associated minerals, and geological context, Lithos, 134-135, 75-90 |
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