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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>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1985.049.351.06</article-id>
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<article-title>Hydrothermal Crystallization of a Radioactive Waste Storage Glass</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Savage</surname>
<given-names>David</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Robbins</surname>
<given-names>Jane E.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">*</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Merriman</surname>
<given-names>Richard J.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>British Geological Survey, Nicker Hill, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire NG12 5GG</aff></contrib-group>
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<fn fn-type="other" id="FN1"><label>*</label><p>British Geological Survey, Geological Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE.</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>4</month>
<year>1985</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>49</volume>
<issue>351</issue>
<fpage>195</fpage>
<lpage>201</lpage>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1985, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1985</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>A borosilicate glass, containing 25 wt. % of simulated high-level radioactive waste has been reacted with water at 350&#x00B0;C and 500 bars for 14 and 48 days using large-volume &#x2018;cold-seal&#x2019; high-pressure equipment. Under these conditions the glass crystallizes a suite of mineral phases including: albite, NaAlSi<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub>; aegirine, NaFeSi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub>; riebeckite, Na<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>2</sub>(Fe,Mg)<sub>3</sub>Si<sub>8</sub>O<sub>22</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>; zektzerite, LiNaZrSi<sub>6</sub>O<sub>15</sub>; barium-strontium molybdate, (Ba,Sr)MoO<sub>4</sub>; stillwellite, (Nd,Ce,La)BSiO<sub>5</sub>; willemite, Zn<sub>2</sub>SiO<sub>4</sub>; smectite; a lithium-sodium borosilicate hydrate; melilite (&#x00E5;kermanite), Ca<sub>2</sub>MgSi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>. A description of the morphology of these phases is given, together with a number of chemical analyses. The implications of the incorporation of waste species in these mineral phases to the disposal of high-level radioactive waste is discussed.</p></abstract>
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<kwd>radioactive waste</kwd>
<kwd>borosilicate glass</kwd>
<kwd>albite</kwd>
<kwd>aegirine</kwd>
<kwd>riebeckite</kwd>
<kwd>zektzerite</kwd>
<kwd>stillwellite</kwd>
<kwd>willemite</kwd>
<kwd>smectite</kwd>
<kwd>melilite</kwd>
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