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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">10.1180/002646199548907</article-id>
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<article-title>Disorder and Compositional Variation in the Lillianite Homologous Series</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Pring</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Jercher</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">*</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Makovicky</surname>
<given-names>E.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref></contrib></contrib-group>
<aff id="A1"><label>1</label>Department of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia</aff>
<aff id="A2"><label>2</label>Mineralogical Institute, University of Copenhagen, &#x00D8;ster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark</aff>
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<fn fn-type="current-aff" id="FN1"><label>*</label><p>Current address: Anger Stra&#x00DF;e 27, 40593 D&#x00FC;sseldorf, Germany.</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<issue>6</issue>
<fpage>917</fpage>
<lpage>926</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>12</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>19</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>1999</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>High resolution transmission electron microscopy studies on the lillianite group minerals from the Ivigtut cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, South Greenland revealed the existence of disordered intergrowths of lillianite/gustavite-like blocks (<italic>N</italic> &#x2212; 4) and heyrovskyite-like (<italic>N</italic> = 7) structural blocks. One disorder sequence is examined in detail, which gave an average homologue number N = 4.92 corresponding to a composition of Pb<sub>3.92</sub> <sub>2<italic>x</italic></sub>Bi<sub>2&#x00B7;<italic>x</italic></sub>Ag<sub><italic>x</italic></sub>S<sub>6.92</sub> with x &#x2248; 1.2. An Axial Next-Nearest Neighour Ising model was used to follow the fluctuations in the average homologue number <italic>N</italic> across the crystal. This yielded compositional fluctuations of the order of 70&#x2013;170 &#x00C5; over a 1800 &#x00C5; region of the crystal, with a 202 &#x00C5; lamella of ordered vikingite. Trends in the randomness of the gustavite-vikingite intergrowth were evaluated and the dominant slab sequence was found to be 4,4,4,7 and 4,4,7,7, suggesting that some longer period homologues may be stable. A number of defects were noted in which changes in slab widths were accommodated. The origin of these partially ordered/disordered lillianite homologues is discussed.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>lillianite group minerals</kwd>
<kwd>disorder</kwd>
<kwd>HRTEM</kwd>
<kwd>Ivigtut</kwd>
<kwd>Greenland</kwd>
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