Structural characteristics of opaline and microcrystalline silica minerals

Silica: Physical Behavior, Geochemistry, and Materials Applications

Volumn 29, Issue , 2019, Pages 209-232

  Graetsch, Heribert ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

SILICA;

EID: 85061125966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9781501509698     Document Type: Chapter

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