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Name: Borcarite RRUFF ID: R110094 Ideal Chemistry: Ca4MgB4O6(CO3)2(OH)6 Locality: Inner Mongolia, China Source: Rob Lavinsky [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light bluish-green tabular crystals associated with white cahnite (R110095) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Quick search: [ All Borcarite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R110094.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 17.847(2)Å b: 8.373(1)Å c: 4.4617(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 102.223(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 651.6(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Borcarite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] |
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Pertzev N N, Ostravskaya I V, Nikitina I B (1965) The new mineral borcarite, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 94, 180-186 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1968) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1143-1145 [view file] |
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Yamnova N A, Simonov M A, Kazanskaya E V, Belov N V (1975) Refinement of the crystal structure of the Ca, Mg-carbonatoborate borcarite Ca4Mg/B4O6(OH)6/(CO3)2, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 20, 799-801 [view file] |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1995) Hydrogen bonding in borcarite, an unusual borate-carbonate mineral, Mineralogical Magazine, 59, 297-304 [view file] |
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