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Name: Montroydite RRUFF ID: R070235 Ideal Chemistry: HgO Locality: Clear Creek claim, southern San Benito County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S100156 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Red prismatic crystal with quartz, cinnabar and greenish yellow edgarbaileyite, R060500 Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Quick search: [ All Montroydite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070235.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.606(4)Å b: 5.502(4)Å c: 3.510(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 127.5(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Montroydite | |
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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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Moses A J (1904) Eglestonit, Terlinguaït und Montroydit, neue Quecksilbermineralien von Terlingua in Texas, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 39, 3-13 [view file] |
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Aurivillius K (1956) The crystal structure of mercury(II)oxide, Acta Crystallographica, 9, 685-686 |
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Aurivillius K (1964) Least-squares refinement of the crystal structures of orthorhombic HgO and of Hg2O2NaI, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 18, 1305-1306 |
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Yan J, Chen B, Raju S V, Godwal B K, MacDowell A A, Knight J, Ma H, Williams Q (2012) HgO at high pressures: the transition to the NaCl structure (HgO-III) and the equation of state of tetragonal HgO-II, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 269-275 |
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