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Name: Chloritoid RRUFF ID: R050334 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Al2O(SiO4)(OH)2 Locality: Selçuk, Mugla Province, Turkey Source: George Rossman 2341 Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark greenish-black foliated cleavage fragments Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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Mineral Group: [ Chloritoid (3) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Chloritoid samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050334.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.482(1)Å b: 5.4824(8)Å c: 18.158(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 101.770(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 924.1(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Chloritoid | |
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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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Fiedler K G (1832) Lagerstätten des Diaspor, Chloritspath, Pyrophyllit und Monazit, aufgefunden im Ural, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 25, 322-333 [view file] |
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Breithaupt J F A (1835) Neue specifische Gewichte von Mineralien und anderen Körpen, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 4, 272-278 [view file] |
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Rose G (1837) Der Chloritoid, in Mineralogisch-geognostische Reise nach dem Ural, dem Altai und dem Kapischen Meere Sanderschen Buchbandlung Berlin 252-254 [view file] |
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Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file] |
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Hietanen A (1951) Chloritoid from Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, American Mineralogist, 36, 859-868 [view file] |
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Hanscom R H (1975) Refinement of crystal structure of monoclinic chloritoid, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 780-784 |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Hanscom R (1980) The structure of triclinic chloritoid and chloritoid polymorphism, American Mineralogist, 65, 534-539 [view file] |
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Reddy D S, Murty M S (1983) Chloritoid amphibolites from the Pamur area, Andhra Pradesh, southern India, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 661-664 [view file] |
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Ghent E D, Stout M Z, Ferri F (1989) Chloritoidparagonitepyrophyllite and stilpnomelane-bearing rocks near Blackwater Mountain, western Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 59-66 [view file] |
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Koch-Muller M, Abs-Wurmbach I, Langer K, Shaw C, Wirth R, Gottschalk M (2000) Synthetic and natural Fe-Mg chloritoid: structural, spectroscopic and thermodynamic studies, European Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 293-314 |
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