Uranyl phosphate sheet reconstruction during dehydration of metatorbernite [Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H 2O]

American Mineralogist

Volumn 95, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1132-1140

  Stubbs, Joanne E ^a,d   Post, Jeffrey E ^b   Elbert, David C ^a   Heaney, Peter J ^c   Veblen, David R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autunite; Meta autunite; Metatorbernite; Rietveld; Synchrotron X ray powder diffraction; Torbernite; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; DEHYDRATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRATES; HYDRATION; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; RIETVELD METHOD; URANIUM; URANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

AUTUNITE; META-AUTUNITE; METATORBERNITE; SYNCHROTRON X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; TORBERNITE;

OXIDE MINERALS;

AUTUNITE; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDRATION; PHOSPHATE GROUP; RECONSTRUCTION; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; URANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77957299731     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2010.3439     Document Type: Article

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