Hafnon X050100

Name: Hafnon
RRUFF ID: X050100
Ideal Chemistry: Hf(SiO4)
Locality: synthetic, grown by J.Hanchar
Source: Caltech
Owner: Caltech
Description:
Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed.
Mineral Group: [ Zircon (35) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
Sample Description: de-polarized laser on unoriented sample
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REFERENCES for Hafnon

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]

Correia Neves J M, Nunes J E L, Sahama T G (1974) High hafnium members of the zircon-hafnon series from the granite pegmatites of Zambézia, Mozambique, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 48, 73-80

Nicola J H, Rutt H N (1974) A comparative study of zircon (ZrSiO4) and hafnon (HfSiO4) Raman spectra, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 1381-1386

Fleischer M, Pabst A, Mandarino J A, Chao G Y, Cabri L J (1976) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 61, 174-186   [view file]

Speer J A, Cooper B J (1982) Crystal structure of synthetic hafnon, HfSiO4, comparison with zircon and the actinide orthosilicates, American Mineralogist, 67, 804-808   [view file]

Hoskin P W O, Rodgers K A (1996) Raman spectral shift in the isomorphous series (Zr1-xHfx)SiO4, European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry, 33, 1111-1121

Manoun B, Downs R T, Saxena S K (2006) A high-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of hafnon, HfSiO4, American Mineralogist, 91, 1888-1892   [view file]

McNeil A G, Linnen R L, Flemming R L (2015) Hydrothermal synthesis of columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), hafnon, and zircon at 800-850°C and 200MPa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1073-1081

Grüneberger A M, Schmidt C, Jahn S, Rhede D, Loges A, Wilke M (2016) Interpretation of Raman spectra of the zircon–hafnon solid solution, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 721-733