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|   |   | Name: Parasibirskite RRUFF ID: R110009 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2B2O5·H2O Locality: Synthetic Source: Jin-Xiao Mi [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Loose aggregate of colorless tabular crystals, mixed with CaLiBO3 crystals (R110010) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R110009.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 6.722(2)Å    b: 5.440(1)Å    c: 3.5566(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 92.92(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 129.87(6)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Parasibirskite | |
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| 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] | |
| Kusachi I, Takechi Y, Henmi C, Kobayashi S (1998) Parasibirskite, a new mineral from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 521-525 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1999) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 84, 685-688 [view file] | |
| Takahashi R, Kusachi I, Miura H (2010) Crystal structure of parasibirskite (CaHBO3) and polymorphism in sibirskite and parasibirskite, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 105, 70-73 | |
| Sun W, Huang Y X, Li Z, Pan Y, Mi J X (2011) Hydrothermal synthesis and single-crystal X-ray structure refinement of three borates: sibirskite, parasibirskite and priceite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 823-834 [view file] | |
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