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Name: Parauranophane RRUFF ID: R120075 Ideal Chemistry: Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O Locality: Capoeira pegmatite, Parelhas, Borborema mineral province, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow prismatic crystals on albite, associated with a yellow fibrous unknown mineral Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Quick search: [ All Parauranophane samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R120075.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 13.971(1)Å b: 15.461(1)Å c: 6.6375(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.434(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1433.3(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Parauranophane | |
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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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Foshag W F, Hunt W F (1935) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 20, 813-814 [view file] |
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Nováček R (1935) Study of some secondary uranium minerals, Vestniku Královské Ceské Spolecnosti Nauk, 7, issue 2 1-16 [view file] |
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Steinocher V, Nováček R (1939) On β-uranotile, American Mineralogist, 24, 324-338 [view file] |
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Fleet M E (1972) The crystal structure of α Ni7S6, American Mineralogist, 57, 318-324 [view file] |
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Stohl F V, Smith D K (1981) The crystal chemistry of the uranyl silicate minerals, American Mineralogist, 66, 610-625 [view file] |
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Viswanathan K, Harneit O (1986) Refined crystal structure of beta-uranophane, Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O, American Mineralogist, 71, 1489-1493 [view file] |
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Vochten R, Blaton N, Peeters O, Van Springel K, Van Haverbeke L (1997) A new method of synthesis of boltwoodite and of formation of sodium boltwoodite, uranophane, sklodowskite and kasolite from boltwoodite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 735-741 [view file] |
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Barinova A V, Rastsvetaeva R K, Sidorenko G A, Verin I A (2003) Crystal structure of β-uranophane from the Transbaikal region and its relation to the structure of the α modification, Crystallography Reports, 48, 12-15 |
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Frost R L, Čejka J, Weier M L, Martens W (2006) Molecular structure of the uranyl silicates - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 37, 538-551 |
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Plášil J (2018) Structural complexity of uranophane and uranophane-β: implications for their formation and occurrence, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 253-257 |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468 [view file] |
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Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232 |
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