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Minerals, Volume 11, Issue 7

2021 July - 130 articles

Cover Story: Garnet is cubic and optically isotropic par excellence. However, some garnets are optically anisotropic. Oscillatory compositional zoning occurs in some garnet samples. Monochromatic synchrotron high-resolution powder X-ray diffraction traces of grossular garnet samples show single cubic phases for isotropic samples, and two or more different cubic phases in anisotropic samples. The different phases in a crystal are resolved using X-ray elemental line scans, backscattered electron images, and elemental maps. Structural mismatch from the two cubic phases intergrown in the birefringent samples gives rise to strain-induced optical anisotropy. The formation of intergrowths in grossular occurs because of changes in the physical and chemical conditions during crystal growth. View this paper
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