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Name: Anatase RRUFF ID: R060277 Ideal Chemistry: TiO2 Locality: Taftan, near Dalbandi, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan Source: Herb Obodda 064 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark brown tetragonal tabular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Not in a structural group (133) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Anatase samples (4) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060277.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 3.799(2)Å b: 3.799(2)Å c: 9.539(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 137.67(5)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Anatase | |
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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 (1797) De loisanite, Theorie de la Terre, 2nd Edition, Vol 2, 269-271 [view file] |
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Haüy R J (1801) Anatase, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 129-136 [view file] |
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Schoβberger, F. (1942) Über die umwandlungen des titandioxyds, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 104, 358-374 |
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Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file] |
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Cromer D T, Herrington K (1955) The structures of anatase and rutile, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 77, 4708-4709 |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Horn M, Schwerdtfeger C F, Meagher E P (1972) Refinement of the structure of anatase at several temperatures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 136, 273-281 [view file] |
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Ohsaka T, Izumi F, Fujiki Y (1978) Raman spectrum of anatase, TiO2, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 7, 321-324 |
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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Vance E R, Doern D C (1989) The properties of anatase pseudomorphs after titanite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 495-498 [view file] |
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Howard C J, Sabine T M, Dickson F (1991) Structural and thermal parameters for rutile and anatase, Acta Crystallographica, B47, 462-468 |
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Zhang W F, He Y L, Zhang M S, Yin Z, Chen Q (2000) Raman scattering study on anatase TiO2 nanocrystals, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 33, 912-916 |
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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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Capitani G, Mugnaioli E, Gentile P (2018) Submicrometer yttrian zircon coating and arborescent aeschynite microcrystals on truncated bipyramidal anatase: An electron microscopy study of miarolitic cavities in the Cuasso al Monte granophyre (Varese, Italy), American Mineralogist, 103, 480-488 |
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Negrão L B A, Da Costa M L, Pöllmann H, Horn A (2018) An application of the Rietveld refinement method to the mineralogy of a bauxite-bearing regolith in the Lower Amazon, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 413-431 |
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