ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD METAMICT
From Danish metamikt, from meta- + Greek miktos mixed.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAMICT»
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metamict in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Progress in Transmission Electron Microscopy 1: Concepts and ...
Concepts and Techniques Xiao-Feng Zhang, Ze Zhang. difference in high-
resolution electron microscope images (Qin, 1994a), but it has been questioned if
there were any structural differences between these "different" metamict silicas.
Fig.
Xiao-Feng Zhang, Ze Zhang, 2001
2
Disilicates and Ring Silicates
As the amount of leaching increases, metamict allanite may change from
greenish-brown to orange-brown in colour, and in highly metamict minerals the
redistribution of the constituents may result in grain heterogeneity due to the
complete ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 1997
3
Geology of the Grosvenor Quadrangle, Brown and Coleman ...
This indicated that neither uranium, thorium, nor lead had been selectively
leached, but rather there had been solution of either metamict zones of zircon or
thorite from the crystals. Inasmuch as the crystals were heavily stained before
acid ...
4
Mineralogy And Geology of Rare Earths in China
This phenomenon is one of the important characteristics of REE geochemistry in
Bayan Obo ore deposits. The metamict state is one of characteristics of RE
minerals in China. The degrees of metamictization varies from semi- metamict ...
Zhang Peishan, Yang Xueming, Tao Kejie, 1996
5
Microscopic Determination of the Nonopaque Minerals
01B oct L4 u earthy mass 01B u mass O4 metamict LH metamict 01B L4 metamict
LH metamict Conch Conch Bnevre 011 dist Bnevre Conch Conch 101 Conch
Conch Brownish-black 0eddish-brown Black Brownish-black Bright yellow Black
...
Michael Fleischer, Ray Everett Wilcox, John J. Matzko, 1984
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Defects in SiO2 and Related Dielectrics: Science and ...
irradiated quartz because of the large specific volume increase involved in
transforming to metamict structural arrangements. The origins of the observed
density changes are clear if the correlations between density, topology and Si-O-
Si angle ...
Gianfranco Pacchioni, Linards Skuja, David Griscom, 2000
The data for various suites of metamict minerals are summarized in Table LXXIX.
As far as it is practicable to do so, this table shows which ratios are thought to
approach most nearly the true values. Where the latter are not themselves the ...
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ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference ...
1 Introduction and sample characterization Metamict minerals incorporate of
uranium and thorium that affect the crystal structure mainly by a-decay events.
The mechanism for the transition from crystalline to amorphous (metamict) state
is not ...
P.-E. Lippens, J.-C. Jumas, J.-M. Génin, 2007
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Bulletin of the National Research Council
The data for various suites of metamict minerals are summarized in Table LXXIX.
As far as it is practicable to do so, this table shows which ratios are thought to
approach most nearly the true values. Where the latter are not themselves the ...
Metamict. minerals. There are some minerals which have experienced natural
alpha-particle irradiation (either from their surroundings in the Earth or from
radioactive impurities or constituents). As a consequence, the crystalline
structures of ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METAMICT»
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metamict is used in the context of the following news items.
Zircon grains shed new light on Mars' watery past
On Earth, when zircons are in a metamict state—that is, when their ... That's when the zircon had become metamict, and thus susceptible to ... «Ars Technica, Sep 14»
Chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board: Who Is …
His graduate work focused on metamict minerals, which are damaged by uranium and thorium atoms. The study of those minerals led to work ... «AllGov, Aug 14»
