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Name: Aragonite RRUFF ID: R150021 Ideal Chemistry: Ca(CO3) Locality: Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain Source: Canan D'Avela Owner: RRUFF Description: Twinned crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Aragonite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Aragonite samples (5) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R150021.1 | |||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.9612(1)Å b: 7.9708(3)Å c: 5.7431(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 227.111(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Aragonite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Werner A G (1788) Geschichte, Karakteristik, und kurze chemische Untersuchung des Apatits. IV. Kurze Nachricht von den sogenannten arragonischen Apatiten, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 76-96 [view file] |
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Hauy C (1791) Sur l'arragonite de Werner, Bulletin des Science, par la Société Philomathique, 2, 67-68 [view file] |
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Estner F J A (1797) 286. Gattung Arragonit., Versuch einer Mineralogie für Anfänger und Liebhaber, 2, 1039-1045 [view file] |
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Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien [as kalkstein], in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 34-34 [view file] |
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Zachariasen W H (1928) Untersuchungen über die Kristallstruktur von Sesquioxyden und Verbindungen ABO3, Skrifter Utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, 1, 1-165 [view file] |
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Northwood D O, Lewis D (1970) Strain induced calcite-aragonite transformation in calcium carbonate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 216-224 [view file] |
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De Villiers J P R (1971) Crystal structures of aragonite, strontianite, and witherite, American Mineralogist, 56, 758-772 [view file] |
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Negro A D, Ungaretti L (1971) Refinement of the crystal structure of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 56, 768-772 [view file] |
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Frech R, Wang E C, Bates J B (1980) The IR and Raman-spectra of CaCO3 (aragonite), Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 36, 915-919 [link] |
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Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates MIICO3 in the 1100-1000 cm-1 region: observation of the v1 mode of the isotopic (C16O218O)2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750 |
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Sato T, Suda J (1996) Temperature dependence of the linewidth of the first-order Raman spectra for aragonite crystal, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 65, 482-488 [link] |
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Alía J M, Díaz de Mera Y D, Edwards H G M, Martín P G, Andrés S L (1997) FT-Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of aragonite-strontianite (CaxSr1-xCO3) solid solution, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 53, 2347-2362 [link] |
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Gauldie R W, Sharma S K, Volk E (1997) Micro-Raman spectral study of vaterite and aragonite otoliths of the coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Physiology, 118, 753-757 [link] |
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Kontoyannis C G, Orkoula M G, Koutsoukos P G (1997) Quantitative analysis of sulfated calcium carbonates using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, Analyst, 122, 33-38 |
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Gabrielli C, Jaouhari R, Joiret S, Maurin G (2000) In situ Raman spectroscopy applied to electrochemical scaling. Determination of the structure of vaterite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 497-501 [link] |
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Kontoyannis C G, Nikos V V (2000) Calcium carbonate phase analysis using XRD and FT-Raman, Analyst, 125, 251-255 |
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Suito K, Namba J, Horikawa T, Taniguchi Y, Sakurai N, Kobayashi M, Onodera A, Shimomura O, Kikegawa T (2001) Phase relations of CaCO3 at high pressure and high temperature, American Mineralogist, 86, 997-1002 [view file] |
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Nave D, Rosenwaks S, Vago R, Bar I (2004) Pulsed laser deposition of marine origin material: Preparation and characterization of CaCO3 particles and CaO nanocrystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 8309-8313 [link] |
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Ono S, Kikegawa T, Ohishi Y, Tsuchiya J (2005) Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO3 at 40 GPa, American Mineralogist, 90, 667-671 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2009) The orthorhombic structure of CaCO3, SrCO3, PbCO3 and BaCO3: Linear structural trends, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 1245-1255 [view file] |
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Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Temperature dependence of the structural parameters in the transformation of aragonite to calcite, as determined from in situ synchrotron powder X-ray-diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1225-1236 [view file] |
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Ye Y, Smyth J R, Boni P (2012) Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 97, 707-712 [view file] |
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Li Y, Zou Y, Chen T, Wang X, Qi X, Chen H, Du J, Li B (2015) P-V-T equation of state and high-pressure behavior of CaCO3 aragonite, American Mineralogist, 100, 2323-2329 |
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Schaebitz M, Wirth R, Janssen C, Dresen G (2015) First evidence of CaCO3-III and CaCO3-IIIb high-pressure polymorphs of calcite: authigenically formed in near surface sediments, American Mineralogist, 100, 1230-1235 |
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D'Avela C, Bao J, Croxen F W, Downs R T, Fickett S, Rodrigues H, Rothstein D, Thompson J J (2016) Preliminary method to determine CO2 sequestration in cementitious units, The Masonry Society, 34, 19-28 [view file] |
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Palaich S E M, Heffern R A, Hanfland M, Lausi A, Kavner A, Manning C E, Merlini M (2016) High-pressure compressibility and thermal expansion of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 101, 1651-1658 |
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Nie S, Liu Y, Liu Q, Wang M, Wang H (2017) Phase transitions and thermal expansion of BaCO3 and SrCO3 up to 1413 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 433-443 |
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Farsang S, Facq S, Redfern S A T (2018) Raman modes of carbonate minerals as pressure and temperature gauges up to 6 GPa and 500 °C, American Mineralogist, 103, 1988-1998 |
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Fruhner C J, Bayarjargal L, Schrodt N, Luchitskaia R, Morgenroth W, Winkler B (2018) Pressure-induced phase transition from calcite to aragonite detected by fluorescence spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 711-720 |
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Shatskiy A, Podborodnikov I V, Arefiev A V, Minin D A, Chanyshev A D, Litasov K D (2018) Revision of the CaCO3-MgCO3 phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 103, 441-452 |
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Lv M, Liu J, Greenberg E, Prakapenka V B, Dorfman S M (2020) Thermal equation of state of post-aragonite CaCO3-Pmmn, American Mineralogist, 105, 1365-1374 |
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Banaru D A, Banaru A M, Aksenov S M (2022) Structural complexity of polymorphs of calcium carbonate and its crystalline hydrates, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 63, 1291-1303 [view file] |
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