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Name: Willemite RRUFF ID: R050652 Ideal Chemistry: Zn2SiO4 Locality: Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 8071 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Parallel aggregate of colorless acicular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Phenakite (8) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Willemite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050652.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
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a: 13.9460(2)Å b: 13.9460(2)Å c: 9.3085(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 1567.88(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Willemite | |
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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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Levy A (1830) Der Willemit, Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1, 71-71 [view file] |
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Brown J S (1936) Supergene sphalerite, galena and willemite at Balmat, N.Y., Economic Geology, 31, 331-354 |
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Hang C, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1970) Crystal structures of willemite Zn2[SiO4] and its germanium analog Zn2[GeO4], Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 15, 387-390 [view file] |
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Simonov M A, Sandomirskii P A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1977) Crystal structure of willemite, Zn2[SiO4], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 237, 581-584 [view file] |
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Klaska K H, Eck J C, Pohl D (1978) New investigation of willemite, Acta Crystallographica, B34, 3324-3325 |
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Finch A A (1990) Genthelvite and willemite, zinc minerals associated with alkaline magmatism from the Motzfeldt centre, South Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 407-412 [view file] |
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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] |
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Choulet F, Richard J, Boiron M C, Dekoninck A, Yans J (2019) Distribution of trace elements in willemite from the Belgium non-sulphide deposits, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 983-997 |
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