Cancrinite R050352 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Cancrinite R050352

Name: Cancrinite
RRUFF ID: R050352
Ideal Chemistry: (Na,Ca,◻)₈(Al₆Si₆)O₂₄(CO₃,SO₄)₂·2H₂O
Locality: York River, quarry #2, Dungannon Township, Ontario, Canada
Source: California Institute of Technology
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pink fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ cancrinite (11) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050352.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Na_6.07Ca_1.62◻_0.31)_Σ=8(Al_0.99Si_1.01O₄)₆((CO₃)_0.84◻_0.16)_Σ=2·2H₂O
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin

Pin ID:

L01694

Orientation:

Laser parallel to -c* (0 0 -1). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to a [1 0 0].

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050352

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050352.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050352.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 12.6140(2)Å b: 12.6140(2)Å c: 5.1253(2)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 706.26(2)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Cancrinite
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]
Rose G (1833) Cancrinit, in Elemente der Krystallographie, nebst einer tabellarischen Uebersicht der Mineralien Ernst Siegfried Mittler Berlin 155-156 [view file]
Berzelius J A C (1834) Cancrinit, in Fysik och Kemi Stockholm 192-192 [view file]
Rose G (1839) Ueber den Sodalith und Cancrinit, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 17, 348-351 [view file]
Rose G (1839) Ueber die mineralogische und geognostische Beschaffenheit des Ilmengebirges, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 47, 374-384 [view file]
Pauling L (1930) The structure of some sodium and calcium aluminosilicates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 453-459 [view file]
Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]
Edgar A D, Burley B J (1963) Studies on cancrinites I-polymorphism in sodium carbonate rich cancrinite-natrodavyne, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 631-642 [view file]
Edgar A D (1964) Studies on cancrinites: II-stability fields and cell dimensions of calcium and potassium-rich cancrinites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 53-67 [view file]
Jarchow O (1965) Atomanordnung und strukturverfeinerung von cancrinit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 122, 407-422 [view file]
Foit F F, Peacor D R, Heinrich E W (1973) Cancrinite with a new superstructure from Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 940-951 [view file]
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Leoni L, Mellini M, Merlino S, Orlandi P (1979) Cancrinite-like minerals: new data and crystal chemical considerations, Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 35, 713-719 [view file]
Rinaldi R, Wenk H R (1979) Stacking variations in cancrinite minerals, Acta Crystallographica, A35, 825-828
Grundy H D, Hassan I (1982) The crystal structure of a carbonate-rich cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 20, 239-251 [view file]
Hassan I, Grundy H D (1984) The character of the cancrinite-vishnevite solid-solution series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 333-340 [view file]
Hassan I, Grundy H D (1984) The crystal structures of sodalite-group minerals, Acta Crystallographica, B40, 6-13
Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]
Hassan I, Grundy H D (1991) The crystal structure of basic cancrinite, ideally Na₈[Al₆Si₆O₂₄](OH)₂·3H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 377-383 [view file]
Hassan I, Buseck P R (1992) The origin of the superstructure and modulations in cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 49-59 [view file]
Jambor J L (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 670-675 [view file]
Jambor J L, Grew E S (1993) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 78, 233-238 [view file]
Hassan I (1996) The thermal behavior of cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 893-900 [view file]
Fechtelkord M, Posnatzki B, Buhl J C (2003) Characterization of basic cancrinite synthesized in a butanediol-water system, European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 589-598
Ballirano P, Maras A (2004) The crystal structure of a “disordered” cancrinite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 135-141
Sapozhnikov A N, Levitsky V I, Cherepanov D I, Suvorova L F, Bogdanova L A (2004) About influence of chlorine upon the framework configuration in cancrinite-like minerals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 133, issue 5 76-86 [view file]
Hassan I, Antao S M, Parise J B (2006) Cancrinite: Crystal structure, phase transitions, and dehydration behavior with temperature, American Mineralogist, 91, 1117-1124 [view file]
Rozenberg K A, Rastsvetaeva R K, Chukanov N V (2009) Crystal structures of oxalate-bearing cancrinite with an unusual arrangement of CO₃ groups and sulfate-rich davyne, Crystallography Reports, 54, 793-799
Isupova D, Ida A, Kihara K, Morishita T, Bulka G (2010) Asymmetric thermal vibrations of atoms and pyroelectricity in cancrinite, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 105, 29-41
Chukanov N V, Pekov I V, Olysych L V, Zubkova N V, Vigasina M F, (2011) Crystal chemistry of cancrinite-group minerals with an AB-type framework: A review and new data. II. IR spectroscopy and its crystal-chemical implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 1151-1164 [view file]
Pekov I V, Olysych L V, Chukanov N V, Zubkova N V, Pushcharovsky D Y, Van K, Giester G, Tillmanns E (2011) Crystal chemistry of cancrinite-group minerals with an AB-type framework: A review and new data. I. Chemical and structural variations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 1129-1150 [view file]
Ballirano P, Bosi F (2012) Thermal behavior of afghanite, an ABABACAC member of the cancrinite group, American Mineralogist, 97, 630-640 [view file]
Diego Gatta G, Lotti P, Kahlenberg V, Haefeker U (2012) The low-temperature behaviour of cancrinite: an in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 933-948 [view file]
Evans R J, Groat L A (2012) Structure and topology of dumortierite and dumortierite-like materials, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1197-1231 [view file]
Lotti P, Gatta G D, Rotiroti N, Cámara F (2012) High-pressure study of a natural cancrinite, American Mineralogist, 97, 872-882 [view file]
Diego Gatta G, Lotti P (2016) Cancrinite-group minerals: Crystal-chemical description and properties under non-ambient conditions - A review, American Mineralogist, 101, 253-265
Martins T, Kressall R, Medici L, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Cancrinite-vishnevite solid solution from Cinder Lake (Manitoba, Canada): crystal chemistry and implications for alkaline igneous rocks, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1261-1277

REFERENCES for Cancrinite

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]

Rose G (1833) Cancrinit, in Elemente der Krystallographie, nebst einer tabellarischen Uebersicht der Mineralien Ernst Siegfried Mittler Berlin 155-156 [view file]

Berzelius J A C (1834) Cancrinit, in Fysik och Kemi Stockholm 192-192 [view file]

Rose G (1839) Ueber den Sodalith und Cancrinit, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 17, 348-351 [view file]

Rose G (1839) Ueber die mineralogische und geognostische Beschaffenheit des Ilmengebirges, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 47, 374-384 [view file]

Pauling L (1930) The structure of some sodium and calcium aluminosilicates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 453-459 [view file]

Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]

Edgar A D, Burley B J (1963) Studies on cancrinites I-polymorphism in sodium carbonate rich cancrinite-natrodavyne, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 631-642 [view file]

Edgar A D (1964) Studies on cancrinites: II-stability fields and cell dimensions of calcium and potassium-rich cancrinites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 53-67 [view file]

Jarchow O (1965) Atomanordnung und strukturverfeinerung von cancrinit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 122, 407-422 [view file]

Foit F F, Peacor D R, Heinrich E W (1973) Cancrinite with a new superstructure from Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 940-951 [view file]

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]

Leoni L, Mellini M, Merlino S, Orlandi P (1979) Cancrinite-like minerals: new data and crystal chemical considerations, Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 35, 713-719 [view file]

Rinaldi R, Wenk H R (1979) Stacking variations in cancrinite minerals, Acta Crystallographica, A35, 825-828

Grundy H D, Hassan I (1982) The crystal structure of a carbonate-rich cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 20, 239-251 [view file]

Hassan I, Grundy H D (1984) The character of the cancrinite-vishnevite solid-solution series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 333-340 [view file]

Hassan I, Grundy H D (1984) The crystal structures of sodalite-group minerals, Acta Crystallographica, B40, 6-13

Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]

Hassan I, Grundy H D (1991) The crystal structure of basic cancrinite, ideally Na₈[Al₆Si₆O₂₄](OH)₂·3H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 377-383 [view file]

Hassan I, Buseck P R (1992) The origin of the superstructure and modulations in cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 49-59 [view file]

Jambor J L (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 670-675 [view file]

Jambor J L, Grew E S (1993) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 78, 233-238 [view file]

Hassan I (1996) The thermal behavior of cancrinite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 893-900 [view file]

Fechtelkord M, Posnatzki B, Buhl J C (2003) Characterization of basic cancrinite synthesized in a butanediol-water system, European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 589-598

Ballirano P, Maras A (2004) The crystal structure of a “disordered” cancrinite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 135-141

Sapozhnikov A N, Levitsky V I, Cherepanov D I, Suvorova L F, Bogdanova L A (2004) About influence of chlorine upon the framework configuration in cancrinite-like minerals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 133, issue 5 76-86 [view file]

Hassan I, Antao S M, Parise J B (2006) Cancrinite: Crystal structure, phase transitions, and dehydration behavior with temperature, American Mineralogist, 91, 1117-1124 [view file]

Rozenberg K A, Rastsvetaeva R K, Chukanov N V (2009) Crystal structures of oxalate-bearing cancrinite with an unusual arrangement of CO₃ groups and sulfate-rich davyne, Crystallography Reports, 54, 793-799

Isupova D, Ida A, Kihara K, Morishita T, Bulka G (2010) Asymmetric thermal vibrations of atoms and pyroelectricity in cancrinite, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 105, 29-41

Chukanov N V, Pekov I V, Olysych L V, Zubkova N V, Vigasina M F, (2011) Crystal chemistry of cancrinite-group minerals with an AB-type framework: A review and new data. II. IR spectroscopy and its crystal-chemical implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 1151-1164 [view file]

Pekov I V, Olysych L V, Chukanov N V, Zubkova N V, Pushcharovsky D Y, Van K, Giester G, Tillmanns E (2011) Crystal chemistry of cancrinite-group minerals with an AB-type framework: A review and new data. I. Chemical and structural variations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 1129-1150 [view file]

Ballirano P, Bosi F (2012) Thermal behavior of afghanite, an ABABACAC member of the cancrinite group, American Mineralogist, 97, 630-640 [view file]

Diego Gatta G, Lotti P, Kahlenberg V, Haefeker U (2012) The low-temperature behaviour of cancrinite: an in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 933-948 [view file]

Evans R J, Groat L A (2012) Structure and topology of dumortierite and dumortierite-like materials, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1197-1231 [view file]

Lotti P, Gatta G D, Rotiroti N, Cámara F (2012) High-pressure study of a natural cancrinite, American Mineralogist, 97, 872-882 [view file]

Diego Gatta G, Lotti P (2016) Cancrinite-group minerals: Crystal-chemical description and properties under non-ambient conditions - A review, American Mineralogist, 101, 253-265

Martins T, Kressall R, Medici L, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Cancrinite-vishnevite solid solution from Cinder Lake (Manitoba, Canada): crystal chemistry and implications for alkaline igneous rocks, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1261-1277