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Name: Tellurium RRUFF ID: R060136 Ideal Chemistry: Te Locality: Good Hope mine, Vulcan District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 1235 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray metallic fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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| RRUFF ID: | R060136.1 | |||||||
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a: 4.4571(4)Å b: 4.4571(4)Å c: 5.9178(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 101.81(2)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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| REFERENCES for Tellurium | |
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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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Delamétherie J C (1798) Sur le tellurium, nouveau métal trouvé par Klaproth, Observations sur la Physique, sur lHistoire Naturelle et sur les Arts, 46, 158-158 [view file] |
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Klaproth M H (1802) Chemische Untersuchung der Siebenbürgischen Golderze, Beiträge zur Chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, 3, 1-34 [view file] |
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Genth F A (1868) Contributions to mineralogy - No. VII, American Journal of Science and Arts, 95, 305-321 [view file] |
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Genth F A (1877) On some tellurium and vanadium minerals, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 17, 113-123 [view file] |
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Bradley A J (1924) The crystal structures of the rhombohedral forms of selenium and tellurium, Philosophical Magazine, 48, 477-497 |
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Cherin P, Unger P (1967) Two-dimentional refinement of the crystal structure of tellurium, Acta Crystallographica, 23, 670-671 |
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Harris D C, Owens D R (1971) A tellurium-bearing canfieldite, from Revelstoke, B.C., The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 895-898 [view file] |
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Adenis C, Langer V, Lindqvist O (1988) Reinvestigation of the structure of tellurium, Acta Crystallographica, C45, 941-942 |
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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] |
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Degtyareva O (2010) Crystal structure of simple metals at high pressures, High Pressure Research, 30, 343-371 |
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Bindi L, Nestola F, Guastoni A, Zorzi F, Peruzzo L, Raber T (2012) Te-rich canfieldite, Ag8Sn(S,Te)6, from Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Canton Valais, Switzerland: Occurrence, description and crystal structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 111-118 [view file] |
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