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Tausonite
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Tausonite |
| image | Tausonite.jpg |
| imagesize | 260px |
| category | Oxide mineral |
| formula | SrTiO3 |
| IMAsymbol | Tau |
| strunz | 4.CC.35 |
| system | Cubic |
| class | Hexoctahedral (mm) |
| H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m) | |
| symmetry | Pm3m |
| unit cell | a = 3.9 Å; Z = 1 |
| color | Red, red-brown, orange, dark gray |
| habit | Cubic and octahedral crystals, granular, massive |
| cleavage | None |
| fracture | Conchoidal |
| tenacity | Brittle |
| mohs | 6-6.5 |
| luster | Adamantine |
| diaphaneity | Translucent to opaque |
| gravity | 4.88 |
| opticalprop | Isotropic |
| refractive | n = 2.40 |
| references |
H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m) | length fast/slow = Tausonite is the rare naturally occurring mineral form of strontium titanate: chemical formula: SrTiO3. It occurs as red to orange brown cubic crystals and crystal masses.
It is a member of the perovskite group.
It was first described in 1982 for an occurrence in a syenite intrusive in Tausonite Hill, Murun Massif, Olyokma-Chara Plateau, Sakha Republic, Yakutia, geologically part of the Aldan Shield, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. It was named for Russian geochemist Lev Vladimirovich Tauson (1917–1989). It has also been reported from a fenite dike associated with a carbonatite complex in Sarambi, Concepción Department, Paraguay. and in high pressure metamorphic rocks along the Kotaki River area of Honshu Island, Japan.
References
References
- Warr, L.N.. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine.
- [http://www.mindat.org/min-3895.html Tausonite on Mindat.org]
- [http://rruff.info/doclib/hom/tausonite.pdf Tausonite in the Handbook of Mineralogy]
- [http://webmineral.com/data/Tausonite.shtml#.UuQIF9LnbRY Tausonite data on Webmineral]
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