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Spinel Group

A synonym of Spinel Subgroup
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Formula:
A2+D3+2O4
Synonym:
A synonym of Spinel Subgroup
A non IMA-approved group name, in use in literature before 2018, for cubic oxides of general formula AE2O4. These species were sub-divided into three series: Spinel series (E = Al), Magnetite series (E = Fe), and the Chromite series (E = Cr). Also known as Spinellid or Spinelid.

A new classification of the spinel supergroup was approved by IMA in march 2018 (Proposal 17-H).

The former spinel group is probably synonymous with the new IMA approved Spinel Subgroup.



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Mindat ID:
29156 (as Spinel Group)
52933 (as Spinel Subgroup)
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:29156:5 (as Spinel Group)
mindat:1:1:52933:4 (as Spinel Subgroup)

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References for Spinel GroupHide

Reference List:
Rinne (1928) Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Beil.-Bd.: 58: 43.
Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1944) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 1 - Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, New York.pp.687-689
Navrotsky, A., Kleppa, O.J. (1967) The thermodynamics of cation distributions in simple spinels. Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry: 29: 2701-2714.
Hill, Roderick J., Craig, James R., Gibbs, G. V. (1979) Systematics of the spinel structure type. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 4 (4) 317-339 doi:10.1007/bf00307535
Essene, E. J., Peacor, D. R. (1983) Crystal chemistry and petrology of coexisting galaxite and jacobsite and other spinel solutions and solvi. American Mineralogist, 68 (3-4) 449-455
Grimes, N.W., Thompson, P., Kay, H.F. (1983) New symmetry and structure for spinel. Proceedings of the Royal Society: A386: 333-345.
O'Neill, Hugh St. C., Navrotsky, Alexandra (1983) Simple spinels: crystallographic parameters, cation radii, lattice energies, and cation distribution. American Mineralogist, 68 (1-2) 181-194
Navrotsky, A. (1986) Cation-distribution energetics and heats of mixing in MgFe2O4-MgAl2O4, ZnFe2O4-ZnAl2O4, and NiAl2O4-ZnAl2O4 spinels: study by high-temperature calorimetry. American Mineralogist: 71: 1160-1169.
Princivallel, F., Della Giusta, A., Carbonin, S. (1989) Comparative crystal chemistry of spinels from some suites of ultramafic rocks. Mineralogy and Petrology, 40 (2) 117-126 doi:10.1007/bf01164322
O'Neill, H. St. C., Dollase, W. A. (1994) Crystal structures and cation distributions in simple spinels from powder XRD structural refinements: MgCr2O4, ZnCr2O4, Fe3O4 and the temperature dependence of the cation distribution in ZnAl2O4. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 20 (8) 541-555 doi:10.1007/bf00211850
Hazen, R.M., Yang, H. (1999) effects of cation substitution and order-disorder on P-V-T equations of state of cubic spinels. American Mineralogist: 84: 1956-1960.
Lavrentiev, M. Yu., Purton, J.A., Allan, N.L. (2003) Ordering in spinels—A Monte Carlo study. American Mineralogist, 88 (10) 1522-1531 doi:10.2138/am-2003-1015
Papike, J.J., Karner, J.M., Shearer, C.K. (2004) Comparative planetary mineralogy: V/(Cr + Al) systematics in chromite as an indicator of relative oxygen fugacity. American Mineralogist, 89 (10) 1557-1560 doi:10.2138/am-2004-1027
Bosi, F. (2019): Chemical and structural variability in cubic spinel oxides. Acta Crystallographica B75, 279-285.
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