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XXI. Analysis of Caporcianite and Phakolite, two new Minerals of the Zeolite Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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The minerals of the zeolite family have for many years attracted the especial attention of men of science, and the class has been rapidly extended in proportion to the progress made in its study in a crystallographic as well as chemical point of view. The first characteristic difference, originally observed long since by Cronstedt, and by him considered to be the distinguishing mark of one single mineral species, which he designated Zeolite,—namely, the property of swelling out by heat previous to fusion,—has since been found to belong to a great number of other combinations. These, although materially different from each other in crystallographic form, have proved to be closely allied in chemical constitution, in so far as they consist, without exception, of a silicate of an alkali or alkaline earth, in combination with a silicate of alumina and water. It is evident, then, that the relation of the silicic acid to the base, in both terms, as well as the quantity of water, is capable of considerable variation, so that the general niineralogical formula which should embrace all the members of the zeolite family would be

Where r represents the monatomic alkaline or earthy basis, and the terms u, t, ,T, y, and z, are capable of varying within certain limits.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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