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An interferometric examination of synthetic mica (With Plate X)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. Tolansky  and
Pamela G. Morris
S. Tolansky
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, London University
Pamela G. Morris
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, London University
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A recent report has appeared describing a process developed in Germany for the production of a crystal described as synthetic mica. The details are given for a process used at Ostheim and reference is also made to a Siemens–Halske technique. Through the courtesy of Mr. Kendall of Metropolitan-Vickers we have secured a few small samples of the Siemens-Halske material. This is reported to be a fluor-phlogopite with the chemical composition KMg3AlSi3O10F2 and free from water of constitution. Claims made by the manufacturers stated that the synthetic material exhibits the cleavage characteristics of natural mica.

The few samples we have obtained have areas somewhat less than a square centimetre and we have selected thin cleavage flakes and submitted them to intefferometric examination with the multiple-beam technique.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 198 , September 1947 , pp. 146 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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page 146 note 1 Link, A. E., Investigation of a synthetic mica process, Ostheim, Germany. Combined Intelligence Objective Sub-committee, no. 22, xxii–11, London (H.M. Stationery Office), 1945. [M.A. 10–108.]Google Scholar