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Name: Newberyite RRUFF ID: R050513 Ideal Chemistry: Mg(PO3OH)·3H2O Locality: Australia Source: American Museum of Natural History 41793 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: An aggregate of beige fragments Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050513.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.2096(5)Å b: 10.6781(5)Å c: 10.0096(5)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1091.26(7)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Newberyite | |
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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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vom Rath G (1879) Note sur deux nouveaux phosphates du guano, Bulletin de la Société Minéralogique de France, 2, 79-82 [view file] |
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MacIvor R W E (1887) On Australian bat guano and some minerals occurring therein, The Chemical News, 55, 215-216 [view file] |
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MacIvor R W E (1902) On minerals occurring in Australian bat guano, The Chemical News, 85, 181-182 [view file] |
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Larsen E S (1921) The microscopic determination of the nonopaque minerals, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 671, 5-294 [view file] |
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Cohen L H, Ribbe P H (1966) Magnesium phosphate mineral replacement at Mono Lake, California, American Mineralogist, 51, 1755-1765 [view file] |
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Sutor D J (1967) The crystal and molecular structure of newberyite, MgHPO4·3H2O, Acta Crystallographica, 23, 418-422 |
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Abbona F, Boistelle R, Haser R (1979) Hydrogen bonding in MgHPO4·3H2O (newberyite), Acta Crystallographica, B35, 2514-2518 |
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Bartl H, Catti M, Joswig W, Ferraris G (1983) Investigation of the crystal structure of newberyite, MgHPO4·3H2O, by single crystal neutron diffraction, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 32, 187-194 |
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Frost R L, Weier M L, Martens W N, Henry D A, Mills S J (2005) Raman spectroscopy of newberyite, hannayite and struvite, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 62, 181-188 |
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Frost R L, Palmer S J, Pogson R E (2011) Raman spectroscopy of newberyite Mg(PO3OH)·3H2O: A cave mineral, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 79, 1149-1153 |
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