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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.1995.059.396.06</article-id>
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<subject>Mineralogy</subject>
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<title-group>
<article-title>Mineralogy of a Unique Graphite-Containing Fragment in the Krymka Chondrite (LL3)</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Semenenko</surname>
<given-names>V. P.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Girich</surname>
<given-names>A. L.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref></contrib></contrib-group>
<aff id="A1"><label>1</label>Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Paladin-34, Kiev-142, Ukraine</aff>
<aff id="A2"><label>2</label>Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>9</month>
<year>1995</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>59</volume>
<issue>396</issue>
<fpage>443</fpage>
<lpage>454</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>22</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>1994</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>16</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>1994</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1995, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1995</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>The Krymka chondrite contains an exotic graphite-bearing fragment that appears to be of a new type of material added to unequilibrated LL-chondrite during agglomeration on the surface of the parent body. The fine-granular texture without chondrules, two morphological groups of graphite crystals which differ in size and occurence, high content of troilite (11.3 vol.%), the high Ni (55.5&#x2013;66.6 wt.%) and Co (1.59&#x2013;2.87 wt.%) contents of the taenite and absence of kamacite, the presence of F-apatite, which is rare for meteorites but common for lunar and terrestrial igneous rocks, are the main features of the fragment.</p>
<p>The mineralogy and texture indicate: (1) the fragment probably formed by crystallization from a highly reduced silicate melt, which had been enriched in carbon; 2) the subsequent metal sulphidization lowered its abundance and resulted in the formation of troilite and the compositional features of the residual metal; (3) terrestrial weathering of an exotic fragment and the host part of the chondrite produced iron hydroxides, pentlandite and quite possibly magnetite.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>chondrite</kwd>
<kwd>fragment</kwd>
<kwd>graphite</kwd>
<kwd>filiform crystals</kwd>
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