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On Monticellite crystals from a steel-works mixer slag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

A. F. Hallimond*
Affiliation:
Museum of Practical Geology, London

Extract

The mineral here described was exhibited at the meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute held on May 6, 1920, in illustration of a paper by Mr. J. F. Wilson, who found that slags yielding these crystals had a composition approximating to the orthosilicate ratio. The slag was obtained from a metal-mixer ladle of about ten tons capacity, and consisted of a network of interlacing rhombie prisms, from which the mother-liquor had withdrawn, leaving material on which it has been possible to make fairly accurate measurements. Mr. Wilson very kindly arranged to place at the disposal of the present authors the specimen on which this account is based.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1921

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References

page 193 note 1 Wilson, J. F., Journ. Iron and Steel Inst., 1920, vol. 101, p. 265 [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 164]Google Scholar.

page 193 note 2 M.P.G. Inv. No. 19766.

page 194 note 1 After deduction of CaO present as Ca2(PO3)2. If this amount of CaO is regarded as being present in the form of monticellite, the molecular composition is R"2SiO4, 16·5 ; CaR"SiO4, 88·5 reels, per cent.

page 195 note 1 It is hoped to deal more fully with this aspect of the olivine group in a later paper.