Serandite R040056 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Serandite R040056

Name: Serandite
RRUFF ID: R040056
Ideal Chemistry: NaMn²⁺₂Si₃O₈(OH)
Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada
Source: Bob Downs
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pink prismatic crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Pectolite (8) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040056.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Na_1.01Mn²⁺_1.93Ca_0.05Si_3.00O₈(OH)
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040056

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R040056.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040056.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 7.702(2)Å b: 6.868(2)Å c: 6.7545(6)Å
alpha: 90.53(2)° beta: 94.00(1)° gamma: 102.71(4)° Volume: 347.6(0)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Serandite
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]
Foshag W F (1931) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 16, 343-344 [view file]
Lacroix A (1931) Les pegmatites de la syénite sodalitique de l'île Rouma (archipel de Los, Guinée française). Description d'un nouveau minéral (sérandite) qu'elles renferment, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 192, 189-194 [view file]
Schaller W T (1955) The pectolite-schizolite-serandite series, American Mineralogist, 40, 1022-1031 [view file]
Manning P G (1968) Absorption spectra of the manganese-bearing chain silicates pyroxmangite, rhodonite, bustamite and serandite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 348-357 [view file]
Ohashi Y, Finger L W (1978) The role of octahedral cations in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry. I. Bustamite, wollastonite, and the pectolite–schizolite–serandite series, American Mineralogist, 63, 274-288 [view file]
Liebau F (1980) The role of cationic hydrogen in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 65, 981-985 [view file]
Jacobsen S D, Smyth J R, Swope R J, Sheldon R I (2000) Two proton positions in the very strong hydrogen bond of serandite, NaMn₂[Si₃O₈(OH)], American Mineralogist, 85, 745-752 [view file]
Williams E R, Weller M T (2014) A variable-temperature neutron diffraction study of serandite: A Mn-silicate framework with a very strong, two-proton site, hydrogen bond, American Mineralogist, 99, 1755-1760
Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864 [view file]
Nagashima M, Imaoka T, Fukuda C, Pettke T (2018) Relationship between cation substitution and hydrogen-bond system in hydrous pyroxenoids with three-periodic single-chain of SiO₄ tetrahedra: pectolite, murakamiite, mashallsussmanite, serandite and tanohataite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 451-463

REFERENCES for Serandite

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]

Foshag W F (1931) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 16, 343-344 [view file]

Lacroix A (1931) Les pegmatites de la syénite sodalitique de l'île Rouma (archipel de Los, Guinée française). Description d'un nouveau minéral (sérandite) qu'elles renferment, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 192, 189-194 [view file]

Schaller W T (1955) The pectolite-schizolite-serandite series, American Mineralogist, 40, 1022-1031 [view file]

Manning P G (1968) Absorption spectra of the manganese-bearing chain silicates pyroxmangite, rhodonite, bustamite and serandite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 348-357 [view file]

Ohashi Y, Finger L W (1978) The role of octahedral cations in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry. I. Bustamite, wollastonite, and the pectolite–schizolite–serandite series, American Mineralogist, 63, 274-288 [view file]

Liebau F (1980) The role of cationic hydrogen in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 65, 981-985 [view file]

Jacobsen S D, Smyth J R, Swope R J, Sheldon R I (2000) Two proton positions in the very strong hydrogen bond of serandite, NaMn₂[Si₃O₈(OH)], American Mineralogist, 85, 745-752 [view file]

Williams E R, Weller M T (2014) A variable-temperature neutron diffraction study of serandite: A Mn-silicate framework with a very strong, two-proton site, hydrogen bond, American Mineralogist, 99, 1755-1760

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864 [view file]

Nagashima M, Imaoka T, Fukuda C, Pettke T (2018) Relationship between cation substitution and hydrogen-bond system in hydrous pyroxenoids with three-periodic single-chain of SiO₄ tetrahedra: pectolite, murakamiite, mashallsussmanite, serandite and tanohataite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 451-463