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Selenium R050656

Name: Selenium
RRUFF ID: R050656
Ideal Chemistry: Se
Locality: Poison Creek, Valencia County, New Mexico, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 6735 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Gray metallic acicular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Sulphur (4) ]

Quick search: [ All Selenium samples (2) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050656.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Se
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:

R050656

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 25% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
	RRUFF File
	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050656.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.367(4)Å b: 4.367(4)Å c: 4.968(4)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 82.04(8)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

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
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Selenium
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]
Palache C (1934) Contributions to crystallography: Claudetite; minasragrite; samsonite; native selenium; indium, American Mineralogist, 19, 194-205 [view file]
Avilov A S, Imamov R M (1969) The structure of selenium, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 14, 259-260 [view file]
Auclair G, Fouquet Y, Bohn M (1987) Distribution of selenium in high-temperature hydrothermal sulfide deposits at 13° North, East Pacific Rise, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 577-587 [view file]
Hattori K H, Arai S, Clarke D B (2002) Selenium, tellurium, arsenic and antimony contents of primary mantle sulfides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 637-650 [view file]
Degtyareva O (2010) Crystal structure of simple metals at high pressures, High Pressure Research, 30, 343-371

REFERENCES for Selenium

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]

Palache C (1934) Contributions to crystallography: Claudetite; minasragrite; samsonite; native selenium; indium, American Mineralogist, 19, 194-205 [view file]

Avilov A S, Imamov R M (1969) The structure of selenium, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 14, 259-260 [view file]

Auclair G, Fouquet Y, Bohn M (1987) Distribution of selenium in high-temperature hydrothermal sulfide deposits at 13° North, East Pacific Rise, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 577-587 [view file]

Hattori K H, Arai S, Clarke D B (2002) Selenium, tellurium, arsenic and antimony contents of primary mantle sulfides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 637-650 [view file]

Degtyareva O (2010) Crystal structure of simple metals at high pressures, High Pressure Research, 30, 343-371