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Name: Graphite RRUFF ID: R120025 Ideal Chemistry: C Locality: Saint-Sauveur Graphite occurrence, Saint-Sauveur, Les Pays-d'en-Haut RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Semi-metallic, dark gray flakes Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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Quick search: [ All Graphite samples (3) ] |
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REFERENCES for Graphite | |
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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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Werner A G (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C.A.S. Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-386 [view file] |
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Lipson H, Stokes A R (1942) The structure of graphite, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A181, 101-105 |
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Lynch R W, Drickamer H G (1966) Effect of high pressure on the lattice parameters of diamond, graphite, and hexagonal boron nitride, Journal of Chemical Physics, 44, 181-184 |
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Campbell S J, Kelly D C, Peacock T E (1989) Graphite: the ultimate large aromatic molecule, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 42, 479-488 |
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Fayos J (1999) Possible 3D carbon structures as progressive intermediates in graphite to diamond phase transition, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 148, 278-285 |
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Nasdala L, Brenker F E, Glinnemann J, Hofmeister W, Gasparik T, Harris J W, Stachel T, Reese I (2003) Spectroscopic 2D-tomography: Residual pressure and strain around mineral inclusions in diamonds, European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, issue 6 931-935 |
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Reich S, Thomsen C (2004) Raman spectroscopy of graphite, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, A362, 2271-2288 |
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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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Song H, Chi G, Wang K, Li Z, Bethune K M, Potter E G, Liu Y (2022) The role of graphite in the formation of unconformity-related uranium deposits of the Athabasca Basin, Canada: A case study of Raman spectroscopy of graphite from the world-class Phoenix uranium deposit, American Mineralogist, 107, 2128-2142 |
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