Veatchite: Structural relationships of the three polytypes

American Mineralogist

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 489-495

  Grice, Joel D ^a   Pring, Allan ^b  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Borate; Crystal structures; Fundamental building block; Polytype; Veatchite

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE;

BORATE; DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; MONOCLINIC SPACE GROUPS; POLYTYPES; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; TRICLINIC SPACE GROUP; VEATCHITE;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BORATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW PRESSURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MONOCLINE;

EID: 84860316483     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2012.3889     Document Type: Article

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