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The Use of “Ferrosilite” as a Name for the Normative Molecule FeSiO3.

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Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Mineralogie und Petrographie

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It is suggested that the name “ferrosilite,” with the symbol (fs), be used for the normative pyroxenic molecule FeSiO3, instead of “hypersthene” (hy), proposed byBarth. The former was proposed and used by me in 1903, but was published in an inconspicuous place, so that it has not come into general use. Remarks are also made on some other features of the “Quantitative Classification of Rocks.”

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    Henry S. Washington

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Ebelmen, Ann. Phys. Chem.33 p.31, 1851.

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Washington, H.S. The Use of “Ferrosilite” as a Name for the Normative Molecule FeSiO3.. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Mineralogie und Petrographie 43, 63–66 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02950215

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