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Name: Kaliophilite RRUFF ID: R061113 Ideal Chemistry: KAlSiO4 Locality: Bolsena, Lazio, Italy Source: Michael Scott S100866 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless acicular silky crystals associated with colorless prismatic apatite, orange akermanite and black augite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R061113.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 26.92(1)Å b: 26.92(1)Å c: 8.530(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 5355(7)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Kaliophilite | |
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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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Mierisch B (1887) Die Auswurfsblöcke des Monte Somma, Mineralogische und Petrographische Mittheilungen, 8, 113-189 [view file] |
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Bowen N L (1917) The sodium-potassium nephelites, American Journal of Science, 43, 115-132 [view file] |
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Gossner B, Mussgnug F (1930) Contribution to the knowledge of kaliophilite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 73, 187-201 |
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Bannister F A, Hey M H (1931) A chemical, optical, and X-ray study of nepheline and kaliophilite, Mineralogical Magazine, 22, 569-608 [view file] |
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Smith J V, Tuttle O F (1957) The nepheline-kalsilite system: I. X-ray data for the crystalline phases, American Journal of Science, 255, 282-305 |
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Cellai D, Carpenter M A, Heaney P J (1992) Phase transitions and microstructures in natural kaliophilite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 4, 1209-1220 |
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Gregorkiewitz M, Li Y, White T J, Withers R L, Sobrados I (2008) The structure of "orthorhombic" KAlSiO4-O1: evidence for Al-Si order from MAS NMR data combined with Rietveld refinement and electron microscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1511-1526 [view file] |
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Mugnaioli E, Bonaccorsi E, Lanza A E, Elkaim E, Diez-Gómez V, Sobrados I, Gemmi M, Gregorkiewitz M (2020) The structure of kaliophilite KAlSiO4, a long-lasting crystallographic problem, IUCrJ, 7, 1070 |
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