Diopside : CSIRO Spectroscopy Database

Diopside

Images

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Midwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of hydrozincite (powder blue PL), chondrodite (yellow PL), diopside (blue-green PL) and calcite (red-pink PL) from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of scapolite (orange PL) and diopside (blue PL) from Greenville, Quebec, Canada. Size: 12cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 13cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen containing chondrodite (yellow PL), calcite (red-pink PL), diopside (bluish-green to blue PL) and hydrozincite (powder blue PL), from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Image of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, diopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Photograph of a specimen of hydrozincite, chondrodite, Ddopside and calcite from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada. Size: 14cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Diopside specimen from De Kalb, De Kalb Township, St Lawrence County, New York, USA. Size: 4.3 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm.

© 2010 Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com, CC-BY-SA-3.0

Photograph of a specimen containing chondrodite, calcite, diopside and hydrozincite, from Long Lake Zinc Mine, Frontenac Co. Ontario Canada

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Properties

Formulas	Ca(Mg,V)Si₂O₆, CaMgSi₂O₆
Abbreviation	Di
Variants	Lavrovite, synthetic
Classification	Clinopyroxene
Luminescence emitters	Cr, Fe, Mn, O, Si-O, Ti, [TiOn]
Spectra	Reflectance (2)
IMA Status	Approved (IMA 1988 s.p.)
Search other databases	webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Crystal symmetry	Monoclinic, Point group 2/m, Space group C2/c (#15)
Tags	Mineral, Synthetic, Silicate, Silicate

Composition

Element	Atoms
Ca	1
Si	2
O	6
Mg	1
Total:	10

References

Gorobets and Rogojine 2002

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Greeen & Walker 1985

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Kazankin et al. 1975

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Laukamp et al. 2021

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Leverenz 1968

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Pejcic et al. 2022 (EP2022-5804)

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Pejcic et al. 2021 (EP2021-1148)

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Tarashchan 1978

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