Quetzalcoatlite: A new octahedral-tetrahedral structure from a 2 x 2 x 40 μm3 crystal at the advanced photon source-GSE-CARS facility

American Mineralogist

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 604-607

  Burns, Peter C ^a   Pluth, Joseph J ^b,c,d   Smith, Joseph V ^b,c   Eng, Peter ^c   Steele, Ian ^b,c   Housley, Robert M ^e  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d University of Chicago   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; GEOMETRY; PHOTONS; SILVER; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE; FRAMEWORK STRUCTURES; JAHN-TELLER; MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; QUETZALCOATLITE; SPACE GROUPS; TETRAHEDRAL STRUCTURES; VERTEX SHARING;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NEW MINERAL; QUETZALCOATLITE;

EID: 0034057338     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2000-0424     Document Type: Article

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