The crystal chemistry of whitlockite and merrillite and the dehydrogenation of whitlockite to merrillite

American Mineralogist

Volumn 93, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1300-1305

  Hughes, John M ^a,c   Jolliff, Bradley L ^b   Rakovan, John ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydrogenation; Merrillite; Structures; Whitlockite

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; DEHYDROGENATION; HYDROGEN; SODIUM ALLOYS; SODIUM METALLOGRAPHY; SOLID SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; CHARGE BALANCING; INTERSTITIAL COMPLEXES; MERRILLITE; OCTAHEDRAL CATION; STRUCTURE REFINEMENTS; WHITLOCKITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION METHOD;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

ANION; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERAL; ORIENTATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 50849112783     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2683     Document Type: Article

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