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Zunyite X050185

Name: Zunyite
RRUFF ID: X050185
Ideal Chemistry: Al₁₃Si₅O₂₀(OH,F)₁₈Cl
Locality: Electric Meat Ball deposit, Quartzsite, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Source: G.R. Rossman 1586
Owner: Caltech
Description:
Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

Sample Description:

de-polarized laser on unoriented sample

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REFERENCES for Zunyite
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]
Hillebrand W F (1885) On zunyite and guitermanite, two new minerals from Colorado, Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, 1, 124-131 [view file]
Ray W B (1956) The crystal structure of zunyite, in Dissertation for PhD at the California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 1-197 [view file]
Ray B, Hughes E W (1957) The crystal structure of zunyite, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 759-759
Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file]
Konta J, Mraz L (1961) Dillnite and its relation to zunyite, American Mineralogist, 46, 629-636 [view file]
Turco G (1962) La zunyite: Recherches expérimentales physico-chimiques en liaison avec l'étude du nouveau gisement de Beni-Embarek, 85, 407-458 [view file]
Baumer A, Gimenez H, Caruba R, Turco G (1974) Remplacements de regroupements atomiques dans la structure zunyite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 97, 271-277 [view file]
Baur W H, Ohta T (1982) The Si₅O₁₆ pentamer in zunyite refined and empirical relations for individual silicon-oxygen bonds, Acta Crystallographica, B38, 390-401
Zhou B, Sherriff B L, Taulelle F, Wu G (2003) Nuclear magnetic resonance study of Al:Si and F:OH order in zunyite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 891-903 [view file]

REFERENCES for Zunyite

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]

Hillebrand W F (1885) On zunyite and guitermanite, two new minerals from Colorado, Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, 1, 124-131 [view file]

Ray W B (1956) The crystal structure of zunyite, in Dissertation for PhD at the California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 1-197 [view file]

Ray B, Hughes E W (1957) The crystal structure of zunyite, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 759-759

Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file]

Konta J, Mraz L (1961) Dillnite and its relation to zunyite, American Mineralogist, 46, 629-636 [view file]

Turco G (1962) La zunyite: Recherches expérimentales physico-chimiques en liaison avec l'étude du nouveau gisement de Beni-Embarek, 85, 407-458 [view file]

Baumer A, Gimenez H, Caruba R, Turco G (1974) Remplacements de regroupements atomiques dans la structure zunyite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 97, 271-277 [view file]

Baur W H, Ohta T (1982) The Si₅O₁₆ pentamer in zunyite refined and empirical relations for individual silicon-oxygen bonds, Acta Crystallographica, B38, 390-401

Zhou B, Sherriff B L, Taulelle F, Wu G (2003) Nuclear magnetic resonance study of Al:Si and F:OH order in zunyite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 891-903 [view file]