Retgersite R100086
Name: Retgersite
RRUFF ID: R100086
Ideal Chemistry: Ni(SO4)·6H2O
Locality: Synthetic, Fluka Chemie 72280
Source: Lab supplies
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Loose aggregate of euhedral blue-green crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R100086.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.7889(8)Å    b: 6.7889(8)Å    c: 18.290(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 842.96(9)Å3    Crystal System: tetragonal
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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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REFERENCES for Retgersite

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]

Beevers C A, Lipson H (1932) The crystal structure of nickel sulphate hexahydrate NiSO4·6H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 83, 123-135   [view file]

Frondel C, Palache C (1949) Retgersite, NiSO4·6H2O, a new mineral, American Mineralogist, 34, 188-194   [view file]

O'Connor B H, Dale D H (1966) A neutron diffraction analysis of the crystal structure of tetragonal nickel sulphate hexadeuterate, Acta Crystallographica, 21, 705-709

Stadnicka K, Glazer A M, Koralewski M (1987) Structure, absolute configuration and optical activity of α-nickel sulfate hexahydrate, Acta Crystallographica, B43, 319-325

Angel R J, Finger L W (1988) Polymorphism of nickel sulfate hexahydrate, Acta Crystallographica, C44, 1869-1873

McIntyre G J, Ptasiewicz-Bak H, Olovsson I (1990) Bonding deformation and superposition effects in the electron density of tetragonal nickel sulfate hexadeuterate NiSO4·6D2O, Acta Crystallographica, B46, 26-39

Ptasiewicz-Bak H, Olovsson I, McIntyre G J (1993) Bonding deformation and superposition in the electron density of tetragonal NiSO4·6H2O at 25 K, Acta Crystallographica, B49, 192-201

Rousseau B, Maes S T, Lenstra A T H (2000) Systematic intensity errors and model imperfection as the consequence of spectral truncation, Acta Crystallographica, A56, 300-307

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]