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Name: Hydroxylapatite RRUFF ID: R050512 Ideal Chemistry: Ca5(PO4)3OH Locality: Moneta Island, Mayeguez, Puerto Rico, USA Source: American Museum of Natural History 15214 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale pink consolidated powder Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hydroxylapatite samples (4) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050512.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.4377(6)Å b: 9.4377(6)Å c: 6.8756(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 530.37(7)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Hydroxylapatite | |
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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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Damour A A (1856) Sur l'hydro-apatite, espèce minérale, Annales des Mines, 10, 65-68 [view file] |
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Schaller W T (1912) Mineralogical notes, Series 2. Mineralogy of the French phosphorites, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 509, 89-100 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1936) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 21, 269-272 [view file] |
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Kay M I, Young R A, Posner A S (1964) Crystal structure of hydroxyapatite, Nature, 204, 1050-1052 |
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Jullmann H, Mosebach R (1966) Zur Synthese, Licht- und Doppelbrechung des Hydroxylapatits, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Chemical Science, 21, 493-494 [view file] |
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Sudarsanan K, Young R A (1969) Significant precision in crystal structural details: Holly Springs hydroxyapatite, Acta Crystallographica, B25, 1534-1543 |
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Dickens B, Brown W E, Kruger G J, Stewart J M (1973) Ca4(PO4)2O, tetracalcium diphosphate monooxide. Crystal structure and relationships to Ca5(PO4)3OH and K3Na(SO4)2, Acta Crystallographica, B29, 2046-2056 |
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Elliot J C, Mackie P E, Young R A (1973) Monoclinic hydroxyapatite, Science, 180, 1055-1057 |
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Fiore S, Lavanio R (1991) Brushite, hydroxylapatite, and taranakite from Apulian caves (southern Italy): New mineralogical data, American Mineralogist, 76, 1722-1727 [view file] |
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Nasdala L (1992) A Raman study on the so-called pseudoapatite from Halsbrücke near Freiberg/Saxony, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 164, 211-227 |
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Jeanjean J, Vincent U, Fedorov M (1994) Structural modification of calcium hydroxyapatite induced by sorption of cadmium ions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 108, 68-72 |
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Kikuchi M, Yamazaki A, Otsuka R, Akao M, Aoki H (1994) Crystal structure of Sr-substituted hydroxyapatite synthesized by hydrothermal method, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 113, 373-378 |
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Jeanjean J, McGrellis S, Rouchaud J C, Fedorov M, Rondeau A, Perocheau S, Dubis A (1996) A crystallographic study of the sorption of cadmium on calcium hydroxyapatites: incidence of cationic vacancies, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 126, 195-201 |
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Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H (1999) Niobian ilmenite, hydroxylapatite and sulfatian monazite: alternative hosts for incompatible elements in calcite kimberlite from Internatsional'naya, Yakutia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1177-1189 [view file] |
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Ikoma T, Yamazaki A (1999) Preparation and structure refinement of monoclinic hydroxyapatite, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 144, 272-276 |
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Fleet M E, Liu X (2000) Site preference of rare earth elements in hydroxyapatite [Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2], Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 149, 391-398 |
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Ivanova T I, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Kol'tsov A B, Ugolkov V L (2001) Crystal structure of calcium-deficient carbonated hydroxyapatite. thermal decomposition, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 160, 340-349 |
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Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 106, 1035-1044 [view file] |
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Wilson R M, Elliott J C, Dowker S E P (2003) Formate incorporation in the structure of Cadeficient apatite: Rietveld structure refinement, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 174, 132-140 |
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Roth P (2007) Hydroxylapatite, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 86-87 |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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Oxmann J F, Pham Q H, Lara R J (2008) Quantification of individual phosphorus species in sediment: a sequential conversion and extraction method, European Journal of Soil Science, 59, 1177-1190 [view file] |
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Lee Y J, Stephens P W, Tang Y, Li W, Phillips B L, Parise J B, Reeder R J (2009) Arsenate substitution in hydroxylapatite: Structural characterization of the Ca5(PxAs1-xO4)3OH solid solution, American Mineralogist, 94, 666-675 [view file] |
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Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179 [view file] |
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Biagioni C, Pasero M (2013) The crystal structure of johnbaumite, Ca5(AsO4)3OH, the arsenate analogue of hydroxylapatite, American Mineralogist, 98, 1580-1584 |
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Ulian G, Valdrè G, Corno M, Ugliengo P (2013) The vibrational features of hydroxylapatite and type A carbonated apatite: A first principle contribution, American Mineralogist, 98, 752-759 |
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Hovis G L, McCubbin F M, Nekvasil H, Ustunisik G, Woerner W R, Lindsley D H (2014) A novel technique for fluorapatite synthesis and the thermodynamic mixing behavior of F-OH apatite crystalline solutions, American Mineralogist, 99, 890-897 |
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Hovis G L, Scott B T, Altomare C M, Leaman A R, Morris M D, Tomaino G P, McCubbin F M (2014) Thermal expansion of fluorapatite-hydroxylapatite crystalline solutions, American Mineralogist, 99, 2171-2175 |
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Hughes J M (2015) The many facets of apatite, American Mineralogist, 100, 1033-1039 |
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Banno Y, Miyawaki R, Momma K, Bunno M (2016) A CO3-bearing member of the hydroxylapatite-hydroxylellestadite series from Tadano, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan: CO3-SO4 substitution in the apatite-ellestadite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 363-370 |
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Hughes J M, Harlov D, Kelly S R, Rakovan J, Wilke M (2016) Solid solution in the apatite OH-Cl binary system: Compositional dependence of solid-solution mechanisms in calcium phosphate apatites along the Cl-OH binary, American Mineralogist, 101, 1783-1791 |
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Antonakos A, Liarokapis E, Kyriacou A, Leventouri T (2017) Raman and IR studies of the effect of Fe substitution in hydroxyapatites and deuterated hydroxyapatite, American Mineralogist, 102, 85-91 |
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Hughes J M, Harlov D, Rakovan J F (2018) Structural variations along the apatite F-OH join, American Mineralogist, 103, 1981-1987 |
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Fau A, Beyssac O, Gauthier M, Panczer G, Gasnault O, Meslin P Y, Bernard S, Maurice S, Forni O, Boulliard J C, Bosc F, Drouet C (2022) Time-resolved Raman and luminescence spectroscopy of synthetic REE-doped hydroxylapatites and natural apatites, American Mineralogist, 107, 1341-1352 |
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