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An X-ray examination of some potash-soda-felspars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. H. Chao ,
D. L. Smare  and
W. H. Taylor
S. H. Chao
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
D. L. Smare
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
W. H. Taylor
Affiliation:
Physics Department, College of Technology, Manchester
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The systematic classification of the potash-soda-felspars is of the greatest interest and importance to the mineralogist, but problems demanding physical investigation are raised in work carried out recently by Dr. Edmondson Spencer, who has described the results of exhaustive chemical, optical, and thermal investigations of a representative collection of these minerals. Dr. Spencer has very kindly allowed us to examine by X-ray methods a large number of his specimens, so that for the first time it has been possible to make a fairly complete survey of potash-soda-felspars of known chemical composition and with accurately measured optical properties.

This paper presents the results of our general survey of potash-soda-felspars with compositions ranging from nearly pure potash-felspar to approximately 50 % soda-felspar. The natural minerals, and the same minerals after specified heat-treatment, have been examined. We do not discuss in detail the interpretation of our results in terms of the atomic structure of felspars; the subject is extremely complicated, and it is necessary to await the results of other investigations now in progress in this laboratory before attempting a complete structural interpretation.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 165 , June 1939 , pp. 338 - 350
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1939

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