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Name: Inderite RRUFF ID: R050195 Ideal Chemistry: MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O Locality: Boron, Kern County, California, USA Source: Dave Bunk Minerals Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless prismatic crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050195.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.8128(2)Å b: 13.0971(4)Å c: 12.0189(5)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 104.545(3)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1038.05(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Inderite | |
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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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Godlevsky M N (1937) Mineralogical investigation of the Inder borate deposit, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 66, issue 2 315-344 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1938) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 23, 293-294 [view file] |
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Frondel C, Morgan V (1956) Inderite and gerstleyite from the Kramer borate district, Kern County, California, American Mineralogist, 41, 839-843 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Rumanova I M, Ashirov A (1963) The determination of the crystal structure of inderite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 8, 414-428 [view file] |
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Corazza E (1976) Inderite: Crystal structure refinement and relationship with kurnakovite, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 1329-1333 |
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Li J, Xia S, Gao S (1995) FT-IR and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrated borates, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 51, 519-532 |
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Zhou B, Michaelis V K, Pan Y, Yao Y, Tait K T, Hyde B C, Wren J E C, Sherriff B L, Kroeker S (2012) Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations, American Mineralogist, 97, 1858-1865 [view file] |
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Comboni D, Poreba T, Battiston T, Hanfland M, Gatta G D (2023) On the anomalous high-pressure phase transition of inderite, MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O, Solid State Sciences, 140, 107187 |
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