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X-ray determination of centrosymmetry in three felspars1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. W. Bailey ,
R. B. Ferguson  and
W. H. Taylor
S. W. Bailey
Affiliation:
Crystallographic Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
R. B. Ferguson
Affiliation:
Crystallographic Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
W. H. Taylor
Affiliation:
Crystallographic Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
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Abstract

Three statistical tests, depending upon the probability distribution of X-ray intensities, have been applied to orthoclase, sanidine, and albite. It is concluded that these three felspars posses centres of symmetry, justifying the assumption of holohedral symmetry made in earlier structure analyses.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 215 , December 1951 , pp. 759 - 764
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1951

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Footnotes

1

The substance of this paper was presented briefly during discussion at a special meeting of the Mineralogical Society devoted to felspars, May 16, 1951.

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