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Name: Plumbonacrite RRUFF ID: R130567 Ideal Chemistry: Pb5(CO3)3O(OH)2 Locality: Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK Source: Rick Turner [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless hexagonal bipyramidal crystal on cerussite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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Quick search: [ All Plumbonacrite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130567.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.0893(9)Å b: 9.0893(9)Å c: 24.904(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1781.8(3)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Plumbonacrite | |
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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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Heddle M F (1889) On dudgeonite, hydroplumbite, plumbonacrite, and plattnerite, Mineralogical Magazine, 8, 200-203 [view file] |
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Haacke D F, Williams P A (1981) Stability of plumbonacrite, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 43, 406-406 |
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Krivovichev S V, Burns P C (2000) Crystal chemistry of basic lead carbonates II. Crystal structure of synthetic `plumbonacrite', Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 1069-1075 [view file] |
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Siidra O, Nekrasova D, Depmeier W, Chukanov N, Zaitsev A, Turner R (2018) Hydrocerussite-related minerals and materials: structural principles, chemical variations and infrared spectroscopy, Acta Crystallographica, B74, 182-195 |
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Siidra O, Nekrasova D, Turner R, Zaitsev A, Chukanov N, Polekhovsky Y, Spratt J, Rumsey M (2018) Somersetite, Pb8O(OH)4(CO3)5, a new complex hydrocerussite-related mineral from the Mendip Hills, England, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1211-1224 [view file] |
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