Khmaralite, a new beryllium-bearing mineral related to sapphirine: A superstructure resulting from partial ordering of Be, Al, and Si on tetrahedral sites

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1650-1660

  Barbier, Jacques ^a   Grew, Edward S ^b   Moore, Paulus B ^c   Su, Shu Chun ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c Hercules Research Center ^*  (United States)

^d Hercules Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BERYLLIA; BERYLLIUM; CHEMICAL BONDS; GAMMA RAYS; MIXING; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; BONDING REQUIREMENTS; CHEMICAL FORMULAE; COUPLED SUBSTITUTION; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION; TETRAHEDRAL SITES; UNIT CELL PARAMETERS;

SILICON;

BERYLLIUM; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PYROXENE;

EID: 0033373170     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-1020     Document Type: Article

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