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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1980.043.330.08</article-id>
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<article-title>The Crystal Structure of Kogarkoite, Na<sub>3</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>F</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Fanfani</surname>
<given-names>L.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Istituto di Mineralogia, Universit&#x00E0; di Cagliari, Italy</aff></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Giuseppetti</surname>
<given-names>G.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Tadini</surname>
<given-names>C.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Istituto di Mineralogia, Universit&#x00E0; di Pavia, Italy</aff></contrib-group>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Zanazzi</surname>
<given-names>P. F.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Istituto di Mineralogia, Universit&#x00E0; di Perugia, Italy</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1980</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>43</volume>
<issue>330</issue>
<fpage>753</fpage>
<lpage>759</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>18</day>
<month>5</month>
<year>1979</year>
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<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>15</day>
<month>1</month>
<year>1980</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1980, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1980</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>The crystal structure of synthetic kogarkoite has been determined from X-ray data collected on an automatic diffractometer. The refinement was performed by a least-squares method employing anisotropic thermal parameters. The 3157 reflections with <italic>I</italic> &#x003E; 3<italic>&#x03C3;(I)</italic> converged to a conventional <italic>R</italic> value of 0.033. The cell content is 12 Na<sub>3</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>F, the space-group <italic>P</italic>2<sub>1</sub>/<italic>m</italic>, <italic>a</italic> = 18.074, <italic>b</italic> = 6.958, <italic>c</italic> = 11.443 &#x00C5;, <italic>&#x03B2;</italic> = 107.71&#x00B0;.</p>
<p>Kogarkoite presents a marked trigonal subcell with <italic>c</italic>&#x2032; corresponding to [102] of the monoclinic cell. The tridimensional framework can be considered built up by nine differently stacked layers of Na atoms approximately perpendicular to the <italic>c</italic>&#x2032; axis (five sheets are present in galeite, six in sulphohalite, and seven in schairerite). The very close structural relationships between these minerals are discussed.</p></abstract>
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