Monazite-(Ce)
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Properties
Formulas | CePO4, (Ce,Th)PO4, (Ce,Ca)PO4 |
Abbreviation | Mnz-Ce |
Variants | Pr doped, Sm doped, Ca rich, Tm doped, Th rich, Nd doped, Ho doped, Eu doped, Dy doped |
Classifications | REE phosphate, Monazite |
Luminescence emitters | Ce, Dy, Eu, Gd, Ho, Nd, Pr, Sm, Tb, Tm |
Spectra | Luminescence (9) |
IMA Status | Approved/renamed (IMA 1966 s.p.) |
Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
Crystal symmetry | Monoclinic, Point group 2/m, Space group P21/c (#14) |
Tags | Mineral, Phosphate, Phosphate , Synthetic, Orthophosphate |
Composition
Element | Atoms |
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P | 1 |
O | 4 |
Ce | 1 |
Total: | 6 |
References
Reference | Lines | Spectra | Images |
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Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Lenz et al. 2015 | 104 | 7 | 7 |
Rahman et al. 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence | 7 | 1 | 1 |
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other | 0 | 2 | 0 |