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Synthetic soda-free thomsonite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Julian R. Goldsmith*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Chicago

Extract

X-ray powder photographs reveal thomsonite a.s the principal product of some low-temperature hydrothermal experiments. Glasses of three compositions were used as starting materials; one of tile composition of anorthite (CaAl2Si2O8), one of a gallium-containing anorthite (Ca4[Ga3Al5]Si8O32) in which 3/8 of the Al is replaced by Ga, and a glass of the oxide composition of zoisite minus the water (4CaO. 3Al2O3. 6SiO2).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1952

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