The structure of charoite, (K,Sr,Ba,Mn)15-16(Ca,Na) 32[(Si70(O,OH)180)](OH,F) 4.0•nH2O, solved by conventional and automated electron diffraction

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-177

  Rozhdestvenskaya, I ^a,b   Mugnaioli, E ^c   Czank, M ^b   Depmeier, W ^b   Kolb, U ^c   Reinholdt, A ^d   Weirich, T ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated electron diffraction tomography (ADT); Charoite; Crystal structure analysis; Precession electron diffraction (PED)

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; AUTOMATED ELECTRON DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY (ADT); CATION SITES; CHAROITE; CRYSTAL CHEMICAL FORMULA; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY; DIRECT METHOD; EDGE SHARING; MICROPROBE ANALYSIS; PRECESSION ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (PED); SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SPACE GROUPS;

AUTOMATION; BARIUM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL REFINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATES; SILICON; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; MINERALOGY; SILICATE MINERAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

EID: 77951810644     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: 14718022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2010.074.1.159     Document Type: Article

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