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3. Notice on the Composition of the Right Prismatic Baryto Calcite, the Bicalcareo-carbonate of Baryta of Dr Thomson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

Johnston
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Durham
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Extract

This mineral, as described by the author about two years ago in the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, presents a new and very interesting example of the principle known to crystallographers by the name of dimorphism; having the same chemical constitution as the well known Baryto Calcite of Brooke, but having a form belonging to an entirely different system of crystallization. In Dr Thomson's System of Mineralogy lately published, however, it is described as a mineral species before unknown, having a composition different from that of every known mineral, and is therefore distinguished by the name of the Bicalcareo carbonate of Baryta.

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Proceedings 1836–37
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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