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Sanbornite R050001

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Name: Sanbornite
RRUFF ID: R050001
Ideal Chemistry: BaSi2O5
Locality: Empire #1 mine, Fresno County, California, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 9044 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: An aggregate of white to colorless pearly anhedral plates
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050001.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Ba1.00Si2.00O5
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: M00487
Orientation: Laser parallel to  -b*  (0 -1 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  c   [0 0 1].
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RRUFF ID: R050001
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050001.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050001.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.6323(8)Å    b: 7.6924(7)Å    c: 13.5286(4)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 482.07(6)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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

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REFERENCES for Sanbornite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

Rogers A F (1932) Sanbornite, a new barium silicate mineral from Mariposa County, California, American Mineralogist, 17, 161-172   [view file]

Douglass R M (1958) The crystal structure of sanbornite, BaSi2O5, American Mineralogist, 43, 517-536   [view file]

Hesse K F, Liebau F (1980) Crystal chemistry of silica-rich barium silicates. III. Refinement of the crystal structures of the layer silicates Ba2(Si4O10) (l) (Sanbornite), and Ba2(Si4O10) (h), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 153, 33-41   [view file]

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]