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Tacharanite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. Cliff ,
J. A. Gard ,
G. W. Lorimer  and
H. F. W. Taylor
G. Cliff
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy, The University, Manchester, England
J. A. Gard
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
G. W. Lorimer
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy, The University, Manchester, England
H. F. W. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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Summary

Tacharanite has been re-examined using electron microscopy and diffraction, analytical microscopy, X-ray powder and fibre rotation photographs, and other methods. The composition approximates to Ca12Al2Si18O69H36, and the X-ray diffraction patterns can be referred to an A-centred monoclinic pseudo-cell with a 17·07, b 3·65, c 27·9 Å, β 114·1°, Z = 1. In the true cell b is certainly, and a and c probably, doubled. Small, reversible changes in pseudo-cell parameters occur on heating below 200°C, and parameters found by electron diffraction differ slightly from those found with X-rays, presumably due to shrinkage on dehydration in the high vacuum of the electron microscope. An earlier report that tacharanite changes into a mixture of tobermorite and gyrolite on standing in air is not confirmed. Tacharanite shows some important resemblances to tobermorite, but there are also significant differences.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 40 , Issue 310 , June 1975 , pp. 113 - 126
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1975

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