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Name: Rémondite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R120060 Ideal Chemistry: Na3(Ce,Ca,Na)3(CO3)5 Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Tan to pale yellow acicular, associated with albite, calcite, and analcime Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ burbankite (8) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R120060.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.429(6)Å b: 18.051(9)Å c: 6.331(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1191.9(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Rémondite-(Ce) | |
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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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Cesbron F, Gilles C, Pelisson P, Saugues J C (1988) La remondite-(Ce), un nouveau carbonate de terres rares de la famille de la burbankite, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris Série II, 307, 915-920 |
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Ginderow D (1989) Structure de Na3M3(CO3)5 (M=Terre Rare, Ca Na Sr), rattaché à la burbankite, Acta Crystallographica, C45, 185-187 |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 431-438 [view file] |
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Belovitskaya Y V, Pekov I V (2004) Genetic mineralogy of the burbankite group, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 39, 50-64 [view file] |
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Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 28. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1859-1864 [view file] |
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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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