American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
519 Infrared light for mineral determination
532 The structure of tourmaline
541 The dark-field color immersion method
550 Pegmatites of Eight: Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado
588 Alpha-silicon carbide, type 51 R
600 A direct reading analytical spectroscope
612 The use of Becke line colors in refractive index determination
619 Properties and chemical formula of fourmarierite
622 A survey of inorganic piezoelectric materials
634 Simple gnomonic projector for x-ray Lauegrams
639 The Livingston, Overton County, Tennessee, meteorite
642 The degrees of freedom of simple symmetry operations
648 A new occurrence of helvite
NEW MINERAL NAMES and DISCREDITED MINERALS
653 New mineral names; Discredited minerals
NOTES and NEWS
645 Notes and news: Notes on the reliability of the x-ray diffraction spectrometer for quantitative mineral analysis
BOOK REVIEW
650 Book reviews
PROCEEDINGS
652 Proceedings of societies
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.