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The elastic properties of diopside, CaMgSi2O6
Liqin Sang, Carine B. Vanpeteghem, Stanislas V. Sinogeikin, and Jay D. Bass
REGULAR ARTICLE
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A mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiogical assessment of the antimony and arsenic-rich neutral mine drainage tailings near Pezinok, Slovakia
Juraj Majzlan, Bronislava Lalinská, Martin Chovan, Ulrich Bläß, Björn Brecht, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Katrin Hug, Sibylle Ziegler, and Johannes Gescher
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Luminescence of diamonds from metamorphic rocks
Loryn F. Bruce, Maya G. Kopylova, Micaela Longo, John Ryder, and Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya
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Crystal chemistry of Th in fluorapatite
Yun Luo, John Rakovan, Yuanzhi Tang, Marian Lupulescu, John M. Hughes, and Yuanming Pan
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Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K
G. Diego Gatta, G.J. McIntyre, R. Sassi, N. Rotiroti, and A. Pavese
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Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite
L.N. Dias, M.V.B. Pinheiro, R.L. Moreira, K. Krambrock, K.J. Guedes, L.A.D. Menezes Filho, J. Karfunkel, J. Schnellrath, and R. Scholz
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An assessment of the potential benefits of ion implants as trace-element reference material for electron probe X-ray microanalysis: The case of invisible gold
Yves Thibault and Allen R. Pratt
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The incorporation of hydroxyl into zircon
Dustin Trail, Jay B. Thomas, and E. Bruce Watson
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Association between phosphorus and iron oxides in manganese ores
Geraldo Magela da Costa and Larissa Ribeiro Herzog
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Equation of state of carbonated hydroxylapatite at ambient temperature up to 10 GPa: Significance of carbonate
Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Michael E. Fleet, Lifei Zhang, and Qiang He
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Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure
John C. Jackson, J. Wright Horton Jr., I-Ming Chou, and Harvey E. Belkin
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Phase boundary between perovskite and postperovskite structures in MnGeO3 determined by in situ X-ray diffraction measurements using sintered diamond anvils
Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, Tomoo Katsura, Takashi Yoshino, Shuangmeng Zhai, Hiroshi Fukui, Anton Shatskiy, Xinzhuan Guo, Shuangming Shan, Takuo Okuchi, Yoshinori Tange, Yuji Higo, and Ken-ichi Funakoshi
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Hydrogenation of FeSi under high pressure
Hidenori Terasaki, Yuki Shibazaki, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Ryuji Tateyama, Eiji Ohtani, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo
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Fe-Ti oxide-silicate (QUIlF-type) equilibria in feldspathoid-bearing systems
Julian Schilling, B. Ronald Frost, Michael A.W. Marks, Thomas Wenzel, and Gregor Markl
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In situ bubble vesiculation in silicic magmas
C. Gondé, C. Martel, M. Pichavant, and H. Bureau
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First-principles calculation of the elastic moduli of sheet silicates and their application to shale anisotropy
B. Militzer, H.-R. Wenk, S. Stackhouse, and L. Stixrude
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A new semi-micro wet chemical method for apatite analysis and its application to the crystal chemistry of fluorapatite-chlorapatite solid solutions
Georg Schettler, Matthias Gottschalk, and Daniel E. Harlov
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New insight into the structural transformation of partially dehydroxylated pyrophyllite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Douglas K. McCarty
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A 94-layer long-period mica polytype: A TEM study
Rosa Anna Fregola and Eugenio Scandale
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The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites
Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Sasha Wilson, Joanne N. Woodhouse, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, and Carl A. Francis
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Vorlanite (CaU6+)O4—A new mineral from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Antoni Winiarski, Viktor M. Gazeev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Roman Wrzalik, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, and Janusz Janeczek
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The structure of braitschite, a calcium rare earth borate
Clare E. Rowland, Christopher L. Cahill, and Jeffrey E. Post
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Alteration of dehydrated schoepite and soddyite to studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2
Tori Z. Forbes, Patrick Horan, Tara Devine, Daniel McInnis, and Peter C. Burns
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A reinvestigation of smectite illitization in experimental hydrothermal conditions: Results from X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy
Eric Ferrage, Olivier Vidal, Régine Mosser-Ruck, Michel Cathelineau, and Javier Cuadros
BOOK REVIEW
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THE PERIODIC TABLE—ITS STORY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE by Eric R. Scerri. (2006) Oxford University Press, 349 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-530573-9
John C. Schumacher
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K
G. Diego Gatta, G.J. McIntyre, R. Sassi, N. Rotiroti, and A. Pavese
138
A new semi-micro wet chemical method for apatite analysis and its application to the crystal chemistry of fluorapatite-chlorapatite solid solutions
Georg Schettler, Matthias Gottschalk, and Daniel E. Harlov
179
The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites
Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Sasha Wilson, Joanne N. Woodhouse, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, and Carl A. Francis
188
Vorlanite (CaU6+)O4—A new mineral from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Antoni Winiarski, Viktor M. Gazeev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Roman Wrzalik, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, and Janusz Janeczek
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The structure of braitschite, a calcium rare earth borate
Clare E. Rowland, Christopher L. Cahill, and Jeffrey E. Post
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