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Name: Avicennite RRUFF ID: R070262 Ideal Chemistry: Tl2O3 Locality: Thallium Prospect, Little Valley, Tooele County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S105807 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grayish black polished crystals on microprobe sample mount. Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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Mineral Group: [ Bixbyite (2) ] |
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REFERENCES for Avicennite | |
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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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Karpova K N, Konkova E A, Larkin E D, Savelev V F (1958) Avicennite - a new mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk Uzbekistan SSR, 2, 23-26 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1959) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 44, 1321-1329 [view file] |
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Otto H H, Baltrusch R, Brandt H J (1993) Further evidence for TI3+ in TI-based superconductors from improved bond strength parameters involving new structural data of cubic TI2O3, Physica C, 215, 205-208 [link] |
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