The role of iron in tetrahedrite and tennantite determined by Rietveld refinement of neutron powder diffraction data

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 447-454

  Andreasen, Jens Wenzel ^a   Makovicky, Emil ^b   Lebech, Bente ^a,c   Møller, Sven Karup ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Neutron diffraction; Rietveld refinement; Tennantite; Tetrahedral iron; Tetrahedrite

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BINARY ALLOYS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IRON; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION; NEUTRONS; RIETVELD REFINEMENT;

CUBIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION DATA; SPACE GROUPS; TENNANTITE; TETRAHEDRAL IRON; TETRAHEDRITE;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IRON; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; TETRAHEDRITE;

EID: 50649094687     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: 14322021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-008-0239-1     Document Type: Article

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