Structural relations among schoepite, metaschoepite and "dehydrated schoepite"

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 831-845

  Finch, Robert J ^a,c   Hawthorne, Frank C ^a   Ewing, Rodney C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Metaschoepite; Phase transformation; Schoepite; Uranium minerals; Uranyl oxide hydrate

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDRATION; METASCHOEPITE; PHASE TRANSITION; SCHOEPITE; URANIUM;

EID: 0032463695     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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