Calomel R070370



Name: Calomel
RRUFF ID: R070370
Ideal Chemistry: HgCl
Locality: Lake County, California, USA
Source: Michael Scott S101876 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless rounded or poorly formed crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070370.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070370.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.428(5)Å    b: 4.428(5)Å    c: 10.82(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 212.2(1)Å3    Crystal System: tetragonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Calomel

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]

de Mayerne T T, Charleton W (1690) De scirrho & cancro uteri., in Praxeos Mayernianae In Morbis internis Præcipue Gravioribus & Chronicis Syntagma, ex Adversariis, Consiliis ac Epistolis Ejus, Summâ Curâ ac Diligentiâ Concinnatum. Impensis Sam. Smith Londini 432-433   [view file]

Whatton W R (1821) On the origin of the name of calomel, Annals of Philosophy, 2, 427-430   [view file]

Reuss F A, Steinmann J J (1827) Calomel, in Das Saidschitzer Bitterwasser J.G. Calve'sche Buchhandlung Prague 78-90   [view file]

Beudant F S (1832) Calomel, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 500-500   [view file]

Moses A J (1903) Eglestonite, terlinguaite, and montroydite, new mercury minerals from Terlingua, Texas, American Journal of Science, Fourth Series, 16, 253-263   [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Burke E A J, Ercit T S, Grew E S, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Vanko D A (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 189-199   [view file]

Calos N J, Kennard C H L, Davis R L (1989) The structure of calomel, Hg2Cl2, derived from neutron powder data, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 187, 305-307   [view file]