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Name: Inderborite RRUFF ID: R060871 Ideal Chemistry: CaMg[B3O3(OH)5]2·6H2O Locality: TL, Inder, Kazakhstan Source: Michael Scott S101031 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless well-formed prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060871.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.133(3)Å b: 7.425(2)Å c: 19.209(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.40(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1730.5(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Inderborite | |
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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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Gorshkov G S (1941) A new mineral from the region of Lake Inder, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 33, 254-256 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1943) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 28, 282-284 [view file] |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1994) Structure and hydrogen bonding in inderborite, a heteropolyhedral sheet structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 533-539 [view file] |
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