Tidying up mineral names: An IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks

Mineralogical Record

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 131-135

  Burke, Ernst A J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

NEW MINERAL; NOMENCLATURE;

EID: 41849104183     PISSN: 00264628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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