Database of luminescent minerals
SAPOZHNIKOVITE
Chemical formula: Na8(Al6Si6O24)(HS)2
Family: Silicates
Status: IMA-A
Crystal system : Isometric
Display mineral: NON
Luminescence:
Longwave UV (365nm) colors: |
Orange , | ||
Midwave UV (320nm) colors: |
Orange , | ||
Intensity MW:Strong | |||
Shortwave UV (254nm) colors: |
Orangy yellow , | ||
Intensity SW:Weak | |||
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Phosphorescence (in the common sense of the term) observable with the naked eye:
No data
Comments:
A sodalite-group mineral from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula.
Activator(s) and spectrum:
Activator(s): S2-,
No spectrum yet
Best localities for fluorescence (*):
- Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
(*)The data are not exhaustive and are limited to a few remarkable localities for fluorescence
Bibliographic reference for luminescence:
Reference for luminescence on the Internet:
- Sapozhnikovite, a new sodalite-group mineral from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Publié en ligne par Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2021, Nikita V. Chukanov, Natalia V. Zubkova,Igor V. Pekov,Roman Yu. Shendrik, Dmitry A. Varlamov,Marina F. Vigasina, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Sergey N. Britvin, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt and Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
- Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 49 - 59 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2021.94
- https://handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Sapozhnikovite.pdf
Mineralogical reference on the Internet:
http://www.mindat.org/show.php?name=Sapozhnikovite
http://webmineral.com/data/Sapozhnikovite.shtml
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