Card No: 6013       Created: 26/05/2004    Last edition: 13/01/2009

Name: SPODUMENE
Specification: [11], structure type - diopside, at 298oK
Formula: LiAl[Si2O6]
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-beta
Space Group: C 2/c
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 9.4790 | b = 8.4030 | c = 5.2230 | beta = 110.1400
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 4Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 390.58
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 40 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 58.82
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

NR = 1864
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 3.16
R-factor: R = 0.0260MU, 1/cm: µ = 99.013
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 31.298
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45