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Fluorine-deficient apatite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

J. M. McArthur*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geological Sciences, University College Lodon, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1990

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