Albite

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Properties

Formula NaAlSi3O8
Abbreviation Ab
Classifications Alkali feldspar, Plagioclase
Luminescence emitters Al-O- -Al, Ce, Dy, Eu, Fe, Mn, Nd, O, Sm, Tb, Tl, Unspecified
Spectra Luminescence (4), SXES (1)
IMA Status Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1815
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Related materials Lingunite
Crystal symmetry Triclinic, Point group 1, Space group P1 (#2)
Tags Mineral, Aluminosilicate

Composition

Element Atoms
Al 1
Si 3
O 8
Na 1
Total: 13

References

Reference Lines Spectra Images
CSIRO SXES database 0 1 1
Gorobets et al. 1989 1 0 0
Götze et al. 1999 16 0 0
Götze et al. 2000 12 0 0
Götze 2000c 1 1 1
Kuzetsov and Tarashchan 1988 4 0 0
Moroshkin et. al. 2001 2 0 0
CSIRO CL spectra 2016 4 1 1
Rahman et al. 2020 0 1 1
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence 3 1 1
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other 0 2 0
White 1974, reflectance 1 0 0
White 1974, reflectance, other 12 0 0