Fresh and weathered pyrochlore studies by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy coupled with thermal analysis

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 567-578

  Nasraoui, M ^a,b   Bilal, E ^a   Gibert, R ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Heating; IR spectroscopy; Pyrochlore; Solid state transformations; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITE; LATERITIZATION; PYROCHLORE; WEATHERING;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

EID: 0032735279     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1999.063.4.09     Document Type: Article

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