Synthesis and crystal chemistry of lanthanide allanites

Metamictization and complex chemistry are major obstacles to the crystal chemical characterization of natural allanites. To overcome these problems, allanites, Ca(REE)Fe²+Al₂Si₃O₁₂(OH), where REE = La, La-Ce, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Er, Dy, Yb and Y have been synthesized hydrothermally from unbuffered a...

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Main Author: Affholter, Kathleen
Other Authors: Geological Sciences
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37332
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02062013-040123/