Colored varieties of the silica minerals

Silica: Physical Behavior, Geochemistry, and Materials Applications

Volumn 29, Issue , 2019, Pages 433-468

  Rossman, George R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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