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Name: Chkalovite RRUFF ID: R060682 Ideal Chemistry: Na2BeSi2O6 Locality: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S101378 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless coarse granular mass Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Cristobalite (11) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060682.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 21.107(1)Å b: 6.8745(2)Å c: 21.156(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 3069.7(0)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Chkalovite | |
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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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Gerasimovsky V I (1939) Chkalovite, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 22, 259-263 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1940) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 25, 380-380 [view file] |
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Pyatenko Y A, Bokii G B, Belov N V (1956) The X-ray analysis of the crystal structure of chkalovite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 108, 1077-1080 [view file] |
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Simonov M A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov, N V (1975) Utochnennaya kristallicheskaya struktura chkalovita Na2Be[Si2O6], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 225, 1319-1322 [view file] |
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Simonov M A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1975) Refined crystal structure of chkalovite Na2Be[Si2O6], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 20, 805-807 [view file] |
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