The primary goal of this review is to present a clear chemical perspective of borates in order
to stimulate and facilitate the discovery of new borate-based optical materials. These …

Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Geology, Frank C. Hawthorne, ed. 1988),
contained a single chapter on X-ray absorption spectroscopy which reviewed aspects of …

Over the past four decades, the number of inorganic oxide and oxy-salt phases containing
stoichiometric quantities of hexavalent uranium has increased exponentially from a few …

Sulfur is the fifteenth most abundant element in the continental crust of the Earth (260 ppm),
and the sixth most abundant element in seawater (885 ppm). Sulfur (atomic number 16) has …

The fractionation of B and its isotopes between aqueous fluid and silicate melt has been
studied from 550 to 1100° C and 100–500 MPa. Fluid-melt partition coefficients are< 1 for …

The paper presents a brief review of the present state of high-temperature borate crystal
chemistry. This review summarizes the results of high-and low-temperature single crystal X …

Bond-length distributions have been examined for 33 configurations of the metalloid ions
and 56 configurations of the post-transition metal ions bonded to oxygen, for 5279 …

Relative to its extremely low abundance in the Earth's crust, tellurium is the most
mineralogically diverse chemical element, with over 160 mineral species known that contain …

Beryllium is one of the most widespread rare elements in granitic pegmatites. These rocks
have been historically the sole industrial source of this metal (eg, Norton et al. 1958), and …

The structural features of over 460 anhydrous oxoborates that are described in literature
were analysed. Lewis acid strengths were calculated for all cations other than B3+ that were …