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The chemical composition of Lengenbachite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

A. Hutchinson*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

Extract

Lengenbachite is one of the interesting minerals which occur in the dolomite of the Binnenthal, and we owe our knowledge of it, as of many other new species, to the careful investigations conducted in recent years by Mr. R. H. Solly at that remarkable locality. The crystallographic and physical characters, so far as they have proved capable of determination, have been already described by Mr. Solly in the pages of this Magazine (vol. xiv, p. 78). The material which he kindly placed in my hands for chemical examination consisted of cleavage-plates, exhibiting brilliant metallic lustre, and of foliated aggregates of thin greyish-black crystals. Some of the crystals were partially covered with a thin, white incrustation readily removed by boiling dilute hydrochloric acid, a reagent which appeared to be without action on the lengenbachite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1907

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