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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
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<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1978.042.324.10</article-id>
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<article-title>Hydrous Gem Magnesian Cordierite with Inclusions of Hydroxyapatite, Dolomite, and Rutile</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Graziani</surname>
<given-names>Giorgio</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Guidi</surname>
<given-names>Gioli</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Istituto di Mineralogia e Petrografia, Universit&#x00E0; degli Studi, 00100 Roma, Italy</aff></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1978</year>
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<volume>42</volume>
<issue>324</issue>
<fpage>481</fpage>
<lpage>485</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>9</day>
<month>3</month>
<year>1978</year>
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<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>26</day>
<month>6</month>
<year>1978</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1978, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1978</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>An uncommon sample of a pale-blue Madagascar cordierite and its mineral inclusions of different kinds have been studied. The physical properties of the embedding cordierite are: <italic>&#x03B1;</italic> = 1&#x00B7;528, <italic>&#x03B2;</italic> = 1&#x00B7;522, <italic>&#x03B3;</italic> = 1&#x00B7;537, <italic>&#x03B4;</italic> = 0&#x00B7;009, 2<italic>V</italic><sub><italic>&#x03B1;</italic></sub> = 96&#x00B0;, density = 2&#x00B7;534 g/cm<sup>3</sup>, <italic>a</italic> = 17&#x00B7;082 &#x00C5;, <italic>b</italic> = 9&#x00B7;728, <italic>c</italic> = 9&#x00B7;352, &#x0394; = 0&#x00B7;26. The electron probe analysis gave SiO<sub>2</sub>=48&#x00B7;64%, Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> = 35&#x00B7;08, FeO = 0&#x00B7;70, MgO = 12&#x00B7;35, H<sub>2</sub>O<sup>+</sup> = 2&#x00B7;50. This is therefore a hydrous magnesian cordierite. Its structural state is related to the shift in <italic>&#x03B1;, &#x03B2;, &#x03B3;</italic>, 2<italic>V</italic><sub>a</sub>, and &#x0394; with heating. Probe analyses were performed on the inclusions: hydro-xyapatite, dolomite, and rutile. The occurrence of dolomite suggests the conditions of formation of the host mineral.</p></abstract>
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