Calcite
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Properties
Formula | CaCO3 |
Abbreviation | Cal |
Variants | st1e, Terlingua |
Classifications | Calcium carbonate, Calcite (group) |
Members | Iceland spar, Plumbocalcite |
Luminescence emitters | Ce, CO3, Dy, Eu, Fe, Mn, Nd, Pb, PO2, Radiation induced, REE, Self trapped exciton, Sm, Tb, Unspecified |
Spectra | Luminescence (4), SXES (1) |
IMA Status | Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1836 |
Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
Related materials | Aragonite, Vaterite |
Crystal symmetry | Trigonal, Point group 3m, Space group R3c (#167) |
Tags | Mineral, Carbonate, Carbonate |
Composition
Element | Atoms |
---|---|
Ca | 1 |
O | 3 |
C | 1 |
Total: | 5 |
References
Reference | Lines | Spectra | Images |
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CSIRO SXES database | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Chapoulie et al. 1995 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Gaft et al. 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Gaft et al. 2005 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Griffith 1974 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Habermann et al. 1999 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Hamblen 2003 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
Lee et al. 2005 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Marshall 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Medlin 1963 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Medlin 1964 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
CSIRO CL spectra 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Richter et al. 2003 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Schulman et al. 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sidike et al. 2006(a) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Walker & Burley 1991 | 2 | 0 | 0 |