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      Magnesite
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      Karsten D L G (1808) Erd-und Steinarten, Magnesit. in Mineralogische Tabellen 2nd ed., (Berlin) 48-48  [view file]
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      Whittaker E J W, Middleton A P (1979) The intergrowth of fibrous brucite and fibrous magnesite with chrysotile. The Canadian Mineralogist 17, 699-702  [view file]
      Zhang J, Martinez I, Guyot F, Gillet P, Saxena S K (1997) X-ray diffraction study of magnesite at high pressure and high temperature. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 24, 122-130
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