| Ellestadite Mineral Data |
General Ellestadite Information |
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| Ca5(SiO4,PO4,SO4)3(F,OH,Cl) | |||
| Molecular Weight = 500.48 gm | |||
| Calcium 40.04 % Ca 56.02 % CaO | |||
| Silicon 10.10 % Si 21.61 % SiO2 | |||
| Phosphorus 5.57 % P 12.76 % P2O5 | |||
| Hydrogen 0.06 % H 0.54 % H2O | |||
| Sulfur 1.92 % S 4.80 % SO3 | |||
| Chlorine 0.71 % Cl 0.71 % Cl | |||
| - % Cl -0.16 % -O=Cl2 | |||
| Oxygen 39.32 % O | |||
| Fluorine 2.28 % F 2.28 % F | |||
| - % F -0.96 % -O=F2 | |||
| ______ ______ | |||
| 100.00 % 97.60 % = TOTAL OXIDE | |||
| Ca5(SiO4)1.8(PO4)0.9(SO4)0.3F0.6(OH)0.3Cl0.1 | |||
| Metamorphosed limestone. Group name for hydroxylellestadite - chlorellestadite series. | |||
| Not Approved IMA | |||
| Crestmore quarry, 5 miles NW of Riverside, Riverside Co. California. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. | |||
| Named for Reuben B. Ellestad (1900-1993), American analytical chemist of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. | |||
| ICSD 39775 | |||
| PDF 25-173 | |||
Ellestadite Image | |||
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Ellestadite Crystallography |
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| Hexagonal - DipyramidalH-M Symbol (6/m) Space Group: P 63/m | |||
Calculated Properties of Ellestadite |
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| Fermion Index = 0.00559 Boson Index = 0.99441 |
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PEEllestadite = 5.75 barns/electron |
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| GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) Ellestadite is Not Radioactive |
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Ellestadite Classification |
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| 52.4.9.0 (52)Nesosilicate Insular SiO4 Groups and O, OH, F, and H2O | |||
| (52.4)with cations in [6] and/or > [6] coordination | |||
| (52.4.9)Silicate apatites | |||
| VIII/B.27-00 VIII - Silicates | |||
| VIII/B - Nesosubsilicates, with anions unfamiliar to tetraheders, with groups [SO4]2-, [CrO4]2- and [PO4]3- | |||
| VIII/B.27 - Fluorellestadite - Lessingite-(Ce) series | |||
Other Ellestadite Information |
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| Links to other databases for Ellestadite : 1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 -Google Images 4 -Google Scholar 5 -MinDAT 6 -MinMax(Deutsch) 7 -MinMax(English) 8 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 9 -QUT Mineral Atlas 10 - WWW-MINCRYST Search for Ellestadite using: Visit our Advertisers for Ellestadite : Translate Ellestadite Mineral Data : Ask about Ellestadite here : Print or Cut-and-Paste your Ellestadite Specimen Label here :
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