Salammoniac R061022



Name: Salammoniac
RRUFF ID: R061022
Ideal Chemistry: (NH4)Cl
Locality: Schoeller mine, Kladno, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Source: Michael Scott S100394 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: A crust of colorless tabular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R061022.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: NH4Cl1.00 ; N, H not measured but estimated by stoichiometry
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R061022
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R061022.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 3.87662(4)Å    b: 3.87662(4)Å    c: 3.87662(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 58.259(2)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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

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REFERENCES for Salammoniac

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]

Agricola G (1556) Sal-ammoniac, in De Re Metallica, translated by Hoover H C and Hoover L H 1950 Dover New York 560-560   [view file]

Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm   [view file]

Vainshtein B K (1956) Refinement of the structure of the group NH4 in the structure of ammonium chloride, Trudy Instituta Kristallografii Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 12, 18-24

Sirdeshmukh D B, Deshpande V T (1970) X-ray measurement of the thermal expansion of ammonium chloride, Acta Crystallographica, A26, 295-295

Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135   [view file]