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    Chlorapatite
    Clap
    Ca5(PO4)3Cl
    Ca5(PO4)3Cl
    Ca P O Cl
    Rose G (1827) Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Apatite. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 85, 185-214  [view file]
    Name changed from chlorapatite to apatite-(CaCl):
    Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: An IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks. The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135  [view file]
    Name changed from apatite-(CaCl) back to chlorapatite. The monoclinic variant is defined as chlorapatite-M and is not a distinct species:
    Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179  [view file]
    Rose G (1827) Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Apatite. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 85, 185-214  [view file]
    Mackie P E, Elliott J C, Young R A (1972) Monoclinic structure of synthetic Ca5(PO4)3Cl, chlorapatite. Acta Crystallographica B28, 1840-1848
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    Argiolas R, Baumer A (1978) Synthèse de chlorapatite par voie hydrothermale: Étude de l'influence de la sursaturation sur l'évolution des faciès des cristaux. The Canadian Mineralogist 16, 285-290  [view file]
    Argiolas R, Baumer A, Lapraz D (1979) Caractérisation des cristaux de chlorapatite synthétisés par voie hydrothermale: Discussion à propos d’anomalies optiques. The Canadian Mineralogist 17, 573-577  [view file]
    Ashley K T, Steele MacInnis M, Harlov D, Hughes J M, Bodnar R J (2026) High-resolution Raman spectroscopy of calcium phosphate apatite along the F-OH, F-Cl, and Cl-OH binaries. American Mineralogist 111(10), 1693-1703 ; https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2025-9938
    Babu S K (1972) On the occurrence of chlorapatite at the emerald mine, Rajagarh village, Ajmer. Mineralogical Magazine 38, 972-974  [view file]
    Baumer A, Caruba R, Bizouard H, Peckett A (1983) Chlorapatite de synthèse: Substitution et inclusions de Mn, Ce, U et Th en traces. The Canadian Mineralogist 21, 567-573  [view file]
    Bridges J C, Grady M M (1999) A halite-siderite-anhydrite-chlorapatite assemblage in Nakhla: Mineralogical evidence for evaporites on Mars. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 34, 407-415
    Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: An IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks. The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135  [view file]
    Chao G Y, Hounslow A W (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Monoclinic chlorapatite from Bob's Lake, Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist 9, 286-286  [view file]
    Dordevic T, Sutovic S, Stojanovic J, Karanovic L (2008) Sr, Ba and Cd arsenates with the apatite-type structure. Acta Crystallographica C64, i82-i86
    Effenberger H, Pertlik F (1978) Die Kristallstruktur des Finnemanits, Pb5Cl(AsO3)3, mit einem Vergleich zum Strukturtyp des Chlorapatits, Ca5Cl(PO4)3. Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 26, 95-107
    Elliott J C (1985) Optical properties of synthetic and mineral chlorapatites. Journal of Applied Crystallography 18, 384-387  [view file]
    Fleet M E, Liu X, Pan Y (2000) Rare-earth elements in chlorapatite [Ca10(PO4)6(Cl)2]: Uptake, site preference, and degradation of monoclinic structure. American Mineralogist 85, 1437-1446  [view file]
    Hazen R M, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Tutolo B M, Blake D F, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, McSween H Y, Ming D, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Thorpe M T, Treiman A H, Tu V M, Vaniman D T (2023) On the diversity and formation modes of Martian minerals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 128, e2023JE007865 ; https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE007865  [view file]
    Hendricks S, Jefferson M, Mosley V (1932) The crystal structures of some natural and synthetic apatite-like substances. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 81, 352-369  [view file]
    Hounslow A W, Chao G Y (1970) Monoclinic chlorapatite from Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist 10, 252-259  [view file]
    Hughes J M (2015) The many facets of apatite. American Mineralogist 100, 1033-1039  [view file]
    Hughes J M, Harlov D, Kelly S R, Rakovan J, Wilke M (2016) Solid solution in the apatite OH-Cl binary system: Compositional dependence of solid-solution mechanisms in calcium phosphate apatites along the Cl-OH binary. American Mineralogist 101, 1783-1791  [view file]
    Hughes J M, Nekvasil H, Ustunisik G, Lindsley D H, Coraor A E, Vaughn J, Phillips B L, McCubbin F M, Woerner W R (2014) Solid solution in the fluorapatite-chlorapatite binary system: High-precision crystal structure refinements of synthetic F-Cl apatite. American Mineralogist 99, 369-376  [view file]
    Kelly S R, Rakovan J, Hughes J M (2017) Column anion arrangements in chemically zoned ternary chlorapatite and fluorapatite from Kurokura, Japan. American Mineralogist 102, 720-727  [view file]
    Mackie P E, Elliott J C, Young R A (1972) Monoclinic structure of synthetic Ca5(PO4)3Cl, chlorapatite. Acta Crystallographica B28, 1840-1848
    Mackie P E, Young R A (1974) Fluorine-chlorine interaction in fluor-chlorapatite. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 11, 319-329
    Meurer W P, Hellström F A, Claeson D T (2004) The relationship between chlorapatite and PGE-rich cumulates in layered intrusions: The Kläppsjö Gabbro, north-central Sweden, as a case study. The Canadian Mineralogist 42, 279-289  [view file]
    Nokhrin S M, Pan Y, Weil J A, Nilges M J (2005) Multifrequency EPR study of radiation-induced defects in chlorapatite. The Canadian Mineralogist 43, 1581-1588  [view file]
    Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179  [view file]
    Rammelsberg C F (1860) Apatit. in Handbuch der Mineralchemie, Wilhelm Engelmann (Leipzig) 351-355  [view file]
    Rose G (1827) Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Apatite. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 85, 185-214  [view file]
    Takagi S, Mathew M (2001) Structures of biological minerals in dental research. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards 106, 1035-1044  [view file]