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Name: Chlorargyrite RRUFF ID: R050360 Ideal Chemistry: AgCl Locality: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 13643 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellowish-gray colloidal aggregate Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction. |
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Mineral Group: [ Rocksalt (18) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050360.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.62099(9)Å b: 5.62099(9)Å c: 5.62099(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 177.598(9)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Chlorargyrite | |
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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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Gesner K (1565) Argentum cornupellucido simile, in De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc. Primum Editi Excudebat Jacobus Gesnerus Tiguri 62-62 [view file] |
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Beudant F S (1832) Keragyre, 2, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie Chez Verdière Paris 501-501 [view file] |
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Breithaupt J F A (1841) Cerargyrites chlorus oder Hornsilber, in Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Volume 2 Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 315-317 [view file] |
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Weisbach A (1875) Chlorargyrit, in Synopsis Mineralogica. Systematische Uebersicht des Mineralreiches J. G. Englehardt’sche Freiberg 37-38 [view file] |
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Prior G T, Spencer L J (1902) The cerargyrite group (holohedral-cubic silver haloids), Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 174-185 [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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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Hull S, Keen D A (1999) Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgCl, AgBr, and AgI, Physical Review B, 59, 750-761 |
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