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Name: Merlinoite RRUFF ID: R130095 Ideal Chemistry: K5Ca2(Si23Al9)O64·24H2O Locality: Pollena quarry, Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania, Italy Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Sprays and clusters of colorless prismatic crystals associated with calcite. Merlinoite crystals are twinned with 90 deg rotations around c-axis. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R130095.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 14.2293(9)Å b: 14.233(1)Å c: 9.966(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2018.2(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Merlinoite | |
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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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Passaglia E, Pongiluppi D, Rinaldi R (1977) Merlinoite, a new mineral of the zeolite group, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1977, 355-364 |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J (1978) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 63, 598-600 [view file] |
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Galli E, Gottardi G, Pongiluppi D (1979) The crystal structure of the zeolite merlinoite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1979, 1-9 |
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Coombs D S, Alberti A, Armbruster T, Artioli G, Colella C, Galli E, Grice J D, Liebau F, Mandarino J A, Minato H, Nickel E H, Passaglia E, Peacor D R, Quartieri S, Rinaldi R, Ross M, Sheppard R A, Tillmanns E, Vezzalini G, (1997) Recommended nomenclature for zeolite minerals: report of the Subcommittee on Zeolites of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1571-1606 [view file] |
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Pakhomova A S, Armbruster T, Krivovichev S V, Yakovenchuk V N (2014) Dehydration of the zeolite merlinoite from the Khibiny massif, Russia: an in situ temperature-dependent single-crystal X-ray study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 371-380 |
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Danisi R M, Armbruster T, Nagashima M (2015) Structural intergrowth of merlinoite/phillipsite and its temperature-dependent dehydration behaviour: a single-crystal X-ray study, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 191-203 |
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Gatta G D, Rotiroti N, Bersani D, Bellatreccia, Ventura G D, Rizzato S (2015) A multi-methodological study of the (K,Ca)-variety of the zeolite merlinoite, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1755-1767 |
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