N R140779 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Ternesite R140779

Name: Ternesite
RRUFF ID: R140779
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₅(SiO₄)₂(SO₄)
Locality: Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Source: Ch. and H. Schäfer [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green massive, associated with black-brown jasmundite, small black grains of srebodolskite, hydroxylellestadite, ettringite and portlandite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R140779

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R140779.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.846(1)Å b: 15.365(2)Å c: 10.157(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1068.5(2)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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	DIF File
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REFERENCES for Ternesite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Irran E, Tillmanns E, Hentschel G (1997) Ternesite, Ca₅(SiO₄)₂SO₄, a new mineral from the Ettringer Bellerberg/Eifel, Germany, Mineralogy and Petrology, 60, 121-132
Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 652-656 [view file]
Galuskin E V, Galuskina I O, Gfeller F, Krüger B, Kusz J, Vapnik Y, Dulski M, Dzierżanowski P (2016) Silicocarnotite, Ca₅[(SiO₄)(PO₄)](PO₄), a new „old" mineral from the Negev Desert, Israel, and the ternesite-silicocarnotite solid solution: indicators of high-temperature alteration of pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim Complex, Southern Levant, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 105-123 [view file]

REFERENCES for Ternesite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Irran E, Tillmanns E, Hentschel G (1997) Ternesite, Ca₅(SiO₄)₂SO₄, a new mineral from the Ettringer Bellerberg/Eifel, Germany, Mineralogy and Petrology, 60, 121-132

Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 652-656 [view file]

Galuskin E V, Galuskina I O, Gfeller F, Krüger B, Kusz J, Vapnik Y, Dulski M, Dzierżanowski P (2016) Silicocarnotite, Ca₅[(SiO₄)(PO₄)](PO₄), a new „old" mineral from the Negev Desert, Israel, and the ternesite-silicocarnotite solid solution: indicators of high-temperature alteration of pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim Complex, Southern Levant, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 105-123 [view file]