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Name: Searlesite RRUFF ID: R060076 Ideal Chemistry: NaBSi2O5(OH)2 Locality: near Cave Spring, Esperalda County, Nevada, USA Source: Dave Bunk Minerals [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless prismatic single crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060076.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.984(1)Å b: 7.073(1)Å c: 4.9049(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 93.994(9)° gamma: 90° Volume: 276.31(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Searlesite | |
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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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Larsen E S, Hicks W B (1914) Searlesite, a new mineral, American Journal of Science, 38, 437-440 [view file] |
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Fahey J J, Axelrod J M (1950) Searlesite from the Green River formation of Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 35, 1014-1020 [view file] |
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Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na2O·B2O3·6SiO2) and eitelite (Na2O·MgO·2CO2) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327 [view file] |
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Kravchenko V B (1964) The crystal structure of searlesite, NaBSi2O5(OH)2, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 9, 143-148 [view file] |
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Ghose S, Wan C (1976) Structural chemistry of borosilicates, part II: Searlesite, NaBSi2O5(OH): Absolute configuration, hydrogen locations, and refinement of the structure, American Mineralogist, 61, 123-129 [view file] |
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