Important Update News
The RRUFF Project is being updated to improve its interface and content. The beta version of the update is accessible to the public at RRUFF.net. New data is only being added to the beta site. Please note that it is in development, and some components are not functional. Existing RRUFF.info links will resolve to the new site after RRUFF.net is officially released.
We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.
![]() |
Name: Edingtonite RRUFF ID: R040003 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(Si3Al2)O10·4H2O Locality: Bohl, Sweden Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 2960 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless tetragonal prism Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
|
Mineral Group: [ Edingtonite (2) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Edingtonite samples (2) ] |
CHEMISTRY | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
|
RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RRUFF ID: | R040003.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.5275(4)Å b: 9.6432(3)Å c: 6.5115(8)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 598.25(6)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
|||||||
|
|
REFERENCES for Edingtonite | |
---|---|
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] |
|
Haidinger W, Turner E (1825) Description of edingtonite, a new mineral species, The Edinburgh Journal of Science, 3, 316-320 [view file] |
|
Galli E (1976) Crystal structure refinement of edingtonite, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 1623-1627 |
|
Grice J D, Gault R A, Ansell H G (1984) Edingtonite: the first two Canadian occurrences, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 253-258 [view file] |
|
Mazzi F, Galli E, Gottardi G (1984) Crystal structure refinement of two tetragonal edingtonites, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1984, 373-382 |
|
Dunn P J, Ferraiolo J A, Fleischer M, Gobel V, Grice J D, Langley R H, Shigley J E, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1985) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 70, 1329-1335 [view file] |
|
Coombs D S, Alberti A, Armbruster T, Artioli G, Colella C, Galli E, Grice J D, Liebau F, Mandarino J A, Minato H, Nickel E H, Passaglia E, Peacor D R, Quartieri S, Rinaldi R, Ross M, Sheppard R A, Tillmanns E, Vezzalini G, (1997) Recommended nomenclature for zeolite minerals: report of the Subcommittee on Zeolites of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1571-1606 [view file] |
|
Ståhl K, Hanson J C (1998) An in situ study of the edingtonite dehydration process from X-ray synchrotron powder diffraction, European Journal of Mineralogy, 10, 221-228 |
|
Zaitsev A N, Wall F, Le Bas M J (1998) REE-Sr-Ba minerals from the Khibina carbonatites, Kola Peninsula, Russia: their mineralogy, paragenesis and evolution, Mineralogical Magazine, 62(2), 225-250 [view file] |
|
Goryainov S V, Kurnosov A V, Miroshnichenko Y M, Smirnov M B, Kabanov I S (2003) Low-temperature anomalies of infrared band intensities and high-pressure behavior of edingtonite, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 61, 283-289 [link] |
|
Gatta G D, Boffa Ballaran T, Comodi P, Zanazzi P F (2004) Comparative compressibility and equation of state of orthorhombic and tetragonal edingtonite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 288-298 |
|
|