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Name: Clinohumite RRUFF ID: R060559 Ideal Chemistry: Mg9(SiO4)4F2 Locality: Tadjikistan Source: Gemological Institute of America 32060 Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellowish-brown fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Humite (21) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Clinohumite samples (5) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060559.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.7392(1)Å b: 10.2445(6)Å c: 13.6483(5)Å alpha: 100.911(6)° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 650.67(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Clinohumite | |
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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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Heuland H, Lévy A (1837) Cinquième Espece. Humite, in Description d'une collection de Minéraux Volume 2 Adolphe Richter et Compagnie London 281-282 [view file] |
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Des Cloizeaux A L O L (1876) Über den Humit; nur der I. Typus ist rhombisch, die beiden andern sind monoklin, doch mit verschiedenen Grundformen, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1876, 640-645 [view file] |
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Ribbe P H, Gibbs G V (1971) Crystal structures of the humite minerals: III. Mg/Fe ordering in humite and its relation to other ferromagnesian silicates, American Mineralogist, 56, 1155-1173 [view file] |
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Robinson K, Gibbs G V, Ribbe P H (1973) The crystal structures of the humite minerals. IV. Clinohumite and titanoclinohumite, American Mineralogist, 58, 43-49 [view file] |
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Fujino K, Takèuchi Y (1978) Crystal chemistry of titanian chondrodite and titanian clinohumite of high-pressure origin, American Mineralogist, 63, 535-543 [view file] |
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Nielsen T F D, Johnsen O (1978) Titaniferous clinohumite from Gardiner Plateau Complex, East Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 42, 99-101 [view file] |
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Winter G A, Essene E J, Peacor D R (1983) Mn-humites from Bald Knob, North Carolina: Mineralogy and phase equilibria, American Mineralogist, 68, 951-959 [view file] |
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Lin C C, Liu L G, Mernagh T P, Irifune T (2000) Raman spectroscopic study of hydroxyl-clinohumite at various pressures and temperatures, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 27, 320-331 [link] |
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Frost R L, Palmer S J, Bouzaid J M, Reddy B J (2007) A Raman spectroscopic study of humite minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 38, 68-77 |
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Knafelc J, Filiberto J, Ferré E C, Conder J A, Costello L, Crandall J R, Dyar M D, Friedman S A, Hummer D R, Schwenzer S P (2019) The effect of oxidation on the mineralogy and magnetic properties of olivine, American Mineralogist, 104, 694-702 |
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Liu D, Pang Y, Ye Y, Jin Z, Smyth J R, Yang Y, Zhang Z, Wang Z (2019) In-situ high-temperature vibrational spectra for synthetic and natural clinohumite: Implications for dense hydrous magnesium silicates in subduction zones, American Mineralogist, 104, 53-63 |
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