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A new locality for Voelckerite and the validity of Voelckerite as a mineral species1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Austin F. Rogers
Austin F. Rogers*
Affiliation:
Mineralogy and Petrography, Leland Stanford, Junior University, California
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In 1912 the writer proposed the name voelckerite (in honour of Dr. John Augustus Voelcker, the well-known English agricultural chemist, who made important contributions to our knowledge of the~ chemistry of apatlte) for the basic calcium phosphate, 3Ca2(PO4)2.CaO , related to apatite. The fact that apatite is often deficient in fluorine and chlorine was proved by Voelcker and by Hoskyns-Abrahall, both of whom gave as the general formula of apatite 3Cas(PO4)2.Ca(F2,C]2,O ) or its equivalent Ca10(PO4)6(F2,Cl2,O ). Carnot also noted the deficiency of chlorine and fluorine in apatite from Tyrol, but he offered no explanation.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 80 , December 1914 , pp. 155 - 162
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1914

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With the addition of some new observations, this paper presents in an amplified form a portion of the material of the author's earlier (1912) paper on the minerals of the apatite group.—Ed.

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page 160 note 2 The results prove this precaution was unnecessary.

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