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Variation in the structure of zircon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Vaughan H. Stott  and
Alfred Hilliard
Vaughan H. Stott
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory
Alfred Hilliard
Affiliation:
British Coal Utilisation Research Association
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In the course of an investigation on refractory materials, in which the identification of minerals by their X-ray diffraction patterns had a prominent place, an interesting observation was made on a zircon of gem quality which was lent to us by the courtesy of Mr. B. W. Anderson.

It may be recalled that the existence of three allotropes has been postulated in order to explain the considerable variations of physical properties which are found when comparing different specimens of zircon. In particular, densities ranging from 3·95 to 4·86 have been observed, the density of zirconium silicate, calculated from X-ray measurements, being 4·71.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 193 , June 1946 , pp. 198 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1946

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References

page 198 note 1 Mineralogical Abstracts, 7–130, 131, 522, 523; 8–123, 377.

page 198 note 2 Anderson, B. W. and Payne, C. J., Gemmologist, London, 1939, vol. 9, p. 4. [M.A. 7–522.]Google Scholar