Thorasphite, Th2H(AsO4)2(PO4)·6H2O, a New Mineral from Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The new mineral species thorasphite, Th2H(AsO4)2(PO4)·6H2O, has been discovered at the abandoned tin deposit at Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia. It occurs as brownish pink to salmon pink, prismatic to acicular crystals up to 0.08 mm in length and 0.002 mm across, associated with jarosite in cavities in a quartz-muscovite matrix. Thorasphite has a white streak and a vitreous luster. The calculated density is 4.185 g/cm3. The mineral is orthorhombic, space group Pbcn, a = 13.673(3), b = 9.925(2), c = 10.222(2) Å, V = 1387.2(5) Å3, and Z = 4. The eight strongest lines in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern are [dobs Å (I) (hkl)]: 8.007 (100) (110), 5.127 (57) (002), 4.934 (71) (020, 211), 4.320 (24) (112), 4.251 (38) (121), 3.225 (22) (130, 312), 3.189 (27) (321), 2.926 (27) (213). Electron microprobe analysis gave (average of n = 9): ThO2 51.35, Na2O 0.17, K2O 0.20, Al2O3 0.35, FeO 0.90, Ce2O3 0.27, As2O5 19.65, P2O5 12.27, SiO2 0.08, Cl 0.20, H2O(calc) 13.58, O=Cl –0.05, Total 98.97 wt.%. On the basis of 18 anions per formula unit, the empirical formula is Th1.72Fe2+0.11Al0.06Na0.05K0.04Ce0.01As1.51P1.53Si0.01O17.95Cl0.05H13.31. The crystal structure has been solved from synchrotron single-crystal data and refined to R1 = 7.48% on the basis of 1432 reflections with Fo > 4σ(Fo). The structure consists of Th2[O12(H2O)4] dimers which link in the c direction by edge-sharing PO4 tetrahedra and corner-sharing AsO4 tetrahedra to form chains along [001]. Chains link by corner-sharing Th[O7(H2O)2] polyhedra and AsO4 tetrahedra, giving rise to a framework hosting channels along [001] which are occupied by H2O molecules.
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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
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.024 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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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".