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Name: Borax RRUFF ID: R070168 Ideal Chemistry: Na2B4O5(OH)4·8H2O Locality: Boron, Kramer District, Kern County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S101857 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless prismatic single crystal associated with tincalconite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R070168.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder, mixture with tincalconite; a: 11.125(2), c: 21.198(7) | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.8774(9)Å b: 10.6487(3)Å c: 12.200(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 106.581(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1478.9(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Borax | |
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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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Agricola G (1556) Borax, in De Re Metallica, translated by Hoover H C and Hoover L H 1950 Dover New York 560-560 [view file] |
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Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file] |
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Wallerius J G, Denso J D (1750) Borax, in Mineralolgie oder Mineralreich Berlegts Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai Berlin 246-250 [view file] |
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Morimoto N (1956) The crystal structure of borax, Mineralogical Journal, 2, 1-18 |
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Levy H A, Lisensky G C (1978) Crystal structures of sodium sulfate decahydrate (Glauber's salt) and sodium tetraborate decahydrate (borax). Redetermination by neutron diffraction, Acta Crystallographica, B34, 3502-3510 |
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Li J, Xia S, Gao S (1995) FT-IR and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrated borates, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 51, 519-532 |
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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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Gainsford G J, Kemmitt T, Higham C (2008) Redetermination of the borax structure from laboratory X-ray data at 145 K, Acta Crystallographica, E64, i24-i25 |
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