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For the term for supporters of president Nixon, see Richard Nixon.

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

Nixonite is a mineral named after professor Peter H. Nixon (b. 1935). 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.

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