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Chalcedony and Flint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. G. Midgley
H. G. Midgley
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(Building Research Station)1
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Abstract

The possibility of interaction between the alkalies in cement and flint and chalcedony has made it necessary to investigate the constitution of these minerals. It had always been thought that these minerals were a mixture of quartz and opal, but experiments have led to the belief that this is not true and that the minerals are composed of a quartz network with a large number of micropores.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , June 1951, pp. 179 - 184
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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