Limousinite, BaCa[Be4P4O16]·6H2O, a new beryllophosphate mineral with a phillipsite-type framework
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Limousinite, ideally BaCa[Be4P4O16]·6H2O, is a new beryllophosphate mineral discovered in the Vilatte-Haute pegmatite, Chanteloube near Razès, Limousin, Haute-Vienne, France. The new mineral is intimately associated with microcrystalline pale brown greifensteinite, black amorphous vitreous Mn-oxyhydroxide, triplite, and quartz. It forms isolated, partly corroded, colorless to snow-white crystals up to 0.9 mm long, showing rhombic cross sections. Limousinite is transparent with a vitreous luster, non-fluorescent, without cleavage planes; its calculated density is 2.58 g/cm3. Optically, the mineral is biaxial negative, α = 1.532(2), β = 1.553(3), γ = 1.558(2) (measured under 589 nm wavelength light), 2Vcalc. = 18°, non-dispersive, with Z parallel to the elongation of the prismatic crystals. Electron-microprobe analyses indicate an empirical formula of (Ba0.91K0.07)Σ0.98(Ca0.87Na0.05)Σ0.92[(Be3.87Al0.13)Σ4P4O16]·5.56H2O, calculated on the basis of 4 P atoms per formula unit, assuming 4 (Be + Al) pfu and a water content calculated from refined site-occupancy factors. A single-crystal structure refinement was performed to R1 = 4.90%, in the P21/c space group, with a = 9.4958(4), b = 13.6758(4), c = 13.4696(4) Å, β = 90.398(3)°, V = 1749.15(10) Å3, Z = 4. The crystal structure is characterized by a beryllophosphate framework similar to that of phillipsite-group zeolites, based on corner-sharing BeO4 and PO4 tetrahedra forming interconnected four- and eight-membered rings. Large cages within this zeolite framework contain Ba, Ca, and water molecules. Limousinite is the third known natural zeolite-type beryllophosphate, together with pahasapaite and wilancookite; it is also the first phosphate with a framework identical to that of a natural zeolite silicate.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".