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 |
Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
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 |