Dehydration processes in borate minerals: Pentahydroborite and nifontovite from Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1013-1025

  Bermanec, V ^a   Tomasic N ^a   Zigovecki Z ^a   Linarić, M Rajić ^b   Furic K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b PLIVA CROATIA LTD   (Croatia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

calcium borate; nifontovite; pentahydroborite; thermal decomposition; water content

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BORATE; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DEHYDRATION PROCESS; MINERAL SAMPLES; NIFONTOVITE; OKAYAMA; PENTAHYDROBORITE; POLYANIONS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

AMORPHIZATION; CALCIUM; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; MINERALS; PYROLYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BORATE MINERALS;

BORATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEHYDRATION; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; WATER CONTENT; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHUGOKU; HONSHU; JAPAN; OKAYAMA [CHUGOKU];

EID: 79551574968     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: 14718022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.1013     Document Type: Article

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