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Name: Chapmanite RRUFF ID: R060910 Ideal Chemistry: Fe3+2Sb3+(Si2O5)O3(OH) Locality: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum M14075 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Greenish yellow massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060910.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.211(2)Å b: 8.993(1)Å c: 7.770(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 101.650(9)° gamma: 90° Volume: 356.64(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Chapmanite | |
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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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Walker T L (1924) Chapmanite, a new hydrous ferrous silicoantimonate, from South Lorrain, Ontario, Contributions to Canadian Mineralogy, 17, 5-8 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1925) New minerals: new species, American Mineralogist, 10, 39-41 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 623-626 [view file] |
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Milton C, Axelrod J M, Ingram B (1958) Bismutoferrite, chapmanite, and hypochlorite, American Mineralogist, 43, 656-670 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1959) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 44, 464-470 [view file] |
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Cech F, Mandarino J A, Fleischer M, Hildebrand F A (1964) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 49, 1497-1502 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1968) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1143-1145 [view file] |
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Zhukhlistov A P, Zvyagin B B (1977) Determination of the crystal structures of chapmanite and bismuthoferrite by high-voltage electron diffraction, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 22, 419-423 [view file] |
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Ballirano P, Maras A, Marchetti F, Merlino S, Perchiazzi N (1998) Rietveld refinement of chapmanite SbFe2Si2O8OH, a TO dioctahedral kaolinite-like mineral, Powder Diffraction, 13, 44-49 |
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Majzlan J, Kiefer S, Lilova K, Subramani T, Navrotsky A, Dachs E , Benisek A (2021) Chapmanite [Fe2Sb(Si2O5)O3(OH)]: thermodynamic properties and formation in low-temperature environments, European Journal of Mineralogy, 33, 357-371 [view file] |
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