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A re-examination of cliftonite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Max H. Hey*
Affiliation:
British Museum

Extract

Cliftonite was described by Sir Lazarus Fletcher in 1887 as ‘a cubic form of graphitic carbon’. He put forward reasons for regarding it as a new allotropic modification of carbon and other reasons suggesting that it is a pseudomorph of graphite after some cubic mineral, perhaps diamond, but did not definitely favour either view. On the evidence available hitherto, both suggestions were clearly possible.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1938

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References

Note

page 81 note 1 Fletcher, L., Min. Mag., 1887, vol. 7, p. 121 ; 1899, vol. 12, p. 171.CrossRefGoogle Scholar