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Study of metamict Ceylon zircons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. R. Vance  and
B. W. Anderson
E. R. Vance
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, University College, London
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Summary

X-ray, density, refractive index, and optical absorption measurements have been made on metamict Ceylon zircons. The appearance of a previously reported anomalous optical absorption spectrum in low Ceylon zircons has been associated with small particles of cubic or tetragonal zirconium dioxide in a radiation-damaged zircon lattice, in both heated and unheated stones. No evidence of a previously reported second phase was detected in intermediate Ceylon zircons.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 38 , Issue 297 , March 1972 , pp. 605 - 613
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1972

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