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Name: Kainite RRUFF ID: R070152 Ideal Chemistry: KMg(SO4)Cl·2.75H2O Locality: Hansa mine, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Lavendar granular massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Quick search: [ All Kainite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070152.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 19.740(1)Å b: 16.237(1)Å c: 9.531(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 94.918(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 3043(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Kainite | |
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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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Zincken C (1865) Ueber ein neues Salz von Leopoldshall bei Stassfurth, Berg- und Huttenmannische Zeitung, 24, 79-80 [view file] |
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Schaller W T, Henderson E P (1932) Mineralogy of drill cores from the potash field of New Mexico and Texas, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 833, 1-124 [view file] |
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Robinson P D, Fang J H, Ohya Y (1972) The crystal structure of kainite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1325-1332 [view file] |
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Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18 [view file] |
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Borisov A S, Siidra O I, Ugolkov V L, Kuznetsov A N, Firsova V A, Charkin D O, Platonova N V, Pekov I V (2022) Complex hydrogen bonding and thermal behaviour over a wide temperature range of kainite KMg(SO4)Clâ‹…2.75H2O, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 37-48 |
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