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Name: Dmisteinbergite RRUFF ID: R130087 Ideal Chemistry: Ca(Al2Si2O8) Locality: Katashina Village, Gunma Prefecture, Japan Source: Michael Scott S101417 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless platelets with pearly luster. Associated with prehnite and wairakite, R061075 Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Dmisteinbergite (2) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Dmisteinbergite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130087.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.1178(4)Å b: 5.1178(4)Å c: 22.128(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 501.9(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Dmisteinbergite | |
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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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Davis G L, Tuttle O F (1952) Two new crystalline phases of the anorthite composition, CaO·Al2O3·2SiO2, American Journal of Science, Bowen Volume, Publication No. 1200, 107-114 |
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Donnay G (1952) Hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8, Acta Crystallographica, 5, 153-153 |
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Takéuchi Y, Donnay G (1959) The crystal structure of hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8, Acta Crystallographica, 12, 465-470 |
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Chesnokov B V, Lotova E V, Nigmatullina E N, Pavlutchenko V S, Bushmakin A F (1990) Dmisteinbergite, CaAl2Si2O8, (hexagonal), a new mineral, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 119, issue 5 43-46 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Vanko D A (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 446-452 [view file] |
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Abe T, Sunagawa I (1995) Hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8 in a high temperature solution; metastable crystallization and transformation to anorthite, Mineralogical Journal, 17, 257-281 [view file] |
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Dimitrijević R, Dondur V, Kremenović A (1996) Thermally induced phase transformations of Ca-exchanged LTA and FAU zeolite frameworks: Rietveld refinement of the hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8 diphyllosilicate structure, Zeolites, 16, 294-300 |
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Nestola F, Mittempergher S, Toro G D, Zozri F, Perdon D (2010) Evidence of dmisteinbergite (hexagonal form of CaAl2Si2O8) in pseudotachylyte: A tool to constrain the thermal history of a seismic event, American Mineralogist, 95, 405-409 [view file] |
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Simakin A G, Eremyashev V E, Kucherinenko Y V (2010) New data on dmisteinbergite, Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 139, issue 3 102-108 [view file] |
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Krivovichev S V, Shcherbakova E P, Nishanbaev T P (2012) The crystal structure of svyatoslavite and evolution of complexity during crystallization of a CaAl2Si2O8 melt: A structural automata description, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 585-592 [view file] |
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Fintor K, Walter H, Nagy S (2013) Petrographic and micro-Raman analysis of chondrules and (Ca, Al)-rich inclusions of NWA 2086 CV3 type carbonaceous chondrite, Lunar and Planetary Science, 44, 1152-1152 [view file] |
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Ma C, Krot A N, Bizzarro M (2013) Discovery of dmisteinbergite (hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8) in the Allende meteorite: A new member of refractory silicates formed in the solar nebula, American Mineralogist, 98, 1368-1371 [view file] |
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Pierro S D, Gnos E (2016) Ca-Al-silicate inclusions in natural moissanite (SiC), American Mineralogist, 101, 71-81 |
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Zolotarev A A, Krivovichev S V, Panikorovskii T L, Gurzhiy V V, Bocharov V N, Rassomakhin M A (2019) Dmisteinbergite, CaAl2Si2O8, a metastable polymorph of anorthite: Crystal-structure and Raman spectroscopic study of the holotype specimen, Minerals, 9, 570 [view file] |
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Wannhoff I, Ferrero S, Borghini A, Darling R, O’Brien P J (2022) First evidence of dmisteinbergite (CaAl2Si2O8 polymorph) in high-grade metamorphic rocks, American Mineralogist, 107, 2315-2319 |
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