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Name: Tenorite RRUFF ID: R120076 Ideal Chemistry: CuO Locality: Synthetic Source: Deng-Shiu Yang Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark red crystals, some are triply twinned, platy ones are doubly twinned, and elongated prismatic crystals are untwinned. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Quick search: [ All Tenorite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R120076.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.6697(8)Å b: 3.4121(8)Å c: 5.128(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 99.46(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 80.602(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Tenorite | |
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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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Semmola M S (1842) Du cuivre oxidé natif (ténorite), Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 13, 206-211 [view file] |
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Niggli P (1922) Die Kristallstruktur einiger Oxyde I., Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 57, 253-299 [view file] |
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Tunell G, Posnjak E, Ksanda C J (1935) Geometrical and optical properties, and crystal structure of tenorite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 90, 120-142 [view file] |
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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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Åsbrink S, Norrby L-J (1970) A refinement of the crystal structure of copper(II) oxide with a discussion of some exceptional E.s.d.'s, Acta Crystallographica, B26, 8-15 |
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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Brese N E, O'Keeffe M, Ramakrishna B L, Von Dreele R B (1990) Low-temperature structures of CuO and AgO and their relationships to those of MgO and PdO, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 89, 184-190 |
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Åsbrink S, Waśkowska A (1991) CuO: X-ray single-crystal structure determination at 196 K and room temperature, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 3, 8173-8180 |
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Chen X K, Irwin J C, Franck J P (1995) Evidence for a strong spin-phonon interaction in cupric oxide, Physical Review B, 52, R13 130-R13 133 |
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Calos N J, Forrester J S, Schaffer G B (1996) A crystallographic contribution to the mechanism of a mechanically induced solid state reaction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 122, 273-280 |
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Debbichi L, Marco de Lucas M C, Pierson J F, Krüger P (2012) Vibrational properties of CuO and Cu4O3 from first-principles calculations, and Raman and infrared spectroscopy, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 10232-10237 |
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Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I), Mineralien Welt, 1, 60-75 |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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