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An X-ray examination of mordenite (ptilolite)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

C. Waymouth ,
P. C. Thornely  and
W. H. Taylor
C. Waymouth
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
P. C. Thornely
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
W. H. Taylor
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
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The structures of the fibrous zeolites edingtonite, thomsonite, and natrolite (with scolecite and mesolite) were determined by X-ray methods some years ago, and it was suggested shortly afterwards by M. H. Hey and F. A. Bannister in a private communication to one of us (W.H.T.) that ‘ptilolite’, another zeolite of fibrous habit, might prove to have a similar structure. An X-ray rotation photograph about the needle axis indicated a unit-cell dimension along the needle axis of approximately 7·5 Å., quite different from the axis c 6·6 Å. characteristic of the fibrous zeolites previously examined, and no further examination of ‘ptilolite’ was made at that time. We have now determined the unit cell and space-group of this crystal, and further work is in progress with a view to the complete analysis of the structure. This paper presents an account of the experimental data which we have obtained.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 163 , December 1938 , pp. 212 - 216
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1938

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