Nixonite

Nixonite
Nixonite
General
Category	Minerals
Formula	Na2Ti6O13
IMA symbol	Nix
Crystal system	Monoclinic
Identification
Mohs scale hardness	5–6
Specific gravity	3.51
Density	3.51(1) g/cm3

Last updated May 27, 2025

Nixonite is a mineral named after professor Peter H. Nixon (b. 1935).^[2] It is chemically related to freudenbergite and loparite-(Ce).

Bibliography

"Nixonite: Mineral information, data and localities". Mindat.org . Retrieved 25 July 2021.

References

↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi: 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 . S2CID 235729616.
↑ Anzolini, Chiara; Wang, Fei; Harris, Garrett A.; Locock, Andrew J.; Zhang, Dongzhou; Nestola, Fabrizio; Peruzzo, Luca; Jacobsen, Steven D.; Pearson, D. Graham (2019-09-01). "Nixonite, Na2Ti6O13, a new mineral from a metasomatized mantle garnet pyroxenite from the western Rae Craton, Darby kimberlite field, Canada" . American Mineralogist . 104 (9): 1336–1344. doi:10.2138/am-2019-7023. ISSN 0003-004X. S2CID 201721641.

This article about a specific mineral or mineraloid is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi: 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 . S2CID 235729616.

[:0-2] Anzolini, Chiara; Wang, Fei; Harris, Garrett A.; Locock, Andrew J.; Zhang, Dongzhou; Nestola, Fabrizio; Peruzzo, Luca; Jacobsen, Steven D.; Pearson, D. Graham (2019-09-01). "Nixonite, Na2Ti6O13, a new mineral from a metasomatized mantle garnet pyroxenite from the western Rae Craton, Darby kimberlite field, Canada" . American Mineralogist . 104 (9): 1336–1344. doi:10.2138/am-2019-7023. ISSN 0003-004X. S2CID 201721641.

[1]

[2]