A raman spectroscopic investigation of synthetic "cooperite", (Pt,Pd,Ni)S

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 11, 1997, Pages 518-528

  Merkle, Roland K W ^b   Pikl, Ralf ^a   Verryn, Sabine M C ^b   De Waal, Danita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cooperite; Mineral chemistry; Platinum group minerals; Raman spectroscopy; Synthetic cooperite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031325228     PISSN: 00283649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njmm/1997/1997/518     Document Type: Article

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