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Willemite R050652

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Name: Willemite
RRUFF ID: R050652
Ideal Chemistry: Zn2SiO4
Locality: Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 8071 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Parallel aggregate of colorless acicular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Phenakite (8) ]
Quick search: [ All Willemite samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050652.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Zn1.99Mn0.01)Σ=2Si1.00O4
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050652
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050652.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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RRUFF ID: R050652.1
Sample Description: Powder
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RRUFF ID: R050652.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050652.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 13.9460(2)Å    b: 13.9460(2)Å    c: 9.3085(2)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 1567.88(4)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Willemite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

Levy A (1830) Der Willemit, Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1, 71-71   [view file]

Brown J S (1936) Supergene sphalerite, galena and willemite at Balmat, N.Y., Economic Geology, 31, 331-354

Hang C, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1970) Crystal structures of willemite Zn2[SiO4] and its germanium analog Zn2[GeO4], Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 15, 387-390   [view file]

Simonov M A, Sandomirskii P A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Belov N V (1977) Crystal structure of willemite, Zn2[SiO4], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 237, 581-584   [view file]

Klaska K H, Eck J C, Pohl D (1978) New investigation of willemite, Acta Crystallographica, B34, 3324-3325

Finch A A (1990) Genthelvite and willemite, zinc minerals associated with alkaline magmatism from the Motzfeldt centre, South Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 407-412   [view file]

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970   [view file]

Choulet F, Richard J, Boiron M C, Dekoninck A, Yans J (2019) Distribution of trace elements in willemite from the Belgium non-sulphide deposits, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 983-997