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Name: Hibonite RRUFF ID: R061069 Ideal Chemistry: CaAl12O19 Locality: Madagascar Source: Michael Scott S101443 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black platy hexagonal prism Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Magnetoplumbite (4) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R061069.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.6082(2)Å b: 5.6082(2)Å c: 22.226(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 605.40(5)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Hibonite | |
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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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Curien H, Guillemin C, Orcel J, Sternberg M (1956) La hibonite, nouvelle espèce minérale, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 242, 2845-2847 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 117-124 [view file] |
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Beckett J R, Live D, Tsay F D, Grossman L, Stolper E (1988) Ti3+ in meteoritic and synthetic hibonite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52, 1479-1495 |
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Utsunomiya A, Tanaka K, Morikawa H, Marumo F, Kojima H (1988) Structure refinement of CaO·6Al2O3, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 75, 197-200 [view file] |
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Bermanec V, Holtstam D, Sturman D, Criddle A J, Back M E, Scavnicar S (1996) Nezilovite, a new member of the magnetoplumbite group, and the crystal chemistry of magnetoplumbite and hibonite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 1287-1297 [view file] |
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Doyle P M, Schofield P F, Berry A J, Walker A M, Knight K S (2014) Substitution of Ti3+ and Ti4+ in hibonite (CaAl12O19), American Mineralogist, 99, 1369-1382 |
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Giannini M, Ballaran T B, Langenhorst F (2014) Crystal chemistry of synthetic Ti-Mg-bearing hibonites: a single-crystal X-ray study, American Mineralogist, 99, 2060-2067 |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2019) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 50. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2019, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 615-620 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Morrison S M (2020) An evolutionary system of mineralogy. Part I: Stellar mineralogy (>13 to 4.6 Ga), American Mineralogist, 105, 627-651 [view file] |
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Holtstam D, Hålenius U (2020) Nomenclature of the magnetoplumbite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 376-380 [view file] |
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Han J, Ohnishi I, Yashuhara A, Keller L P (2022) Atomic-scale structure and non-stoichiometry of meteoritic hibonite: A transmission electron microscope study, American Mineralogist, 107, 873-884 |
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