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Mössbauer spectra of synthetic Ca-Fe pyroxenoids and lunar pyroxferroite

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Resolution of the iron sites in the Mössbauer spectra of Ca-Fe pyroxenoids is only partial, two doublets being apparent in each case, whereas there are up to nine cation sites in each structure. Thus the inner and outer doublets represent, respectively: two sites and two sites in Ca0.5Fe0.5SiO3 (ferrobustamite); five sites and two sites in Ca0.15Fe0.85SiO3 (pyroxferroite); and five sites and four sites in FeSiO3 (ferrosolite III). Disorder of iron and calcium which exists in the two calcium-bearing pyroxenoids is not readily apparent in the spectra.

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  1. Eric Dowty

    Present address: Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 08540, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

  2. D. H. Lindsley

    Present address: Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York, 11790, Stony Brook, New York, USA

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  1. U. S. Geological Survey, 20242, Washington, D.C.

    Eric Dowty

  2. Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.

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Dowty, E., Lindsley, D.H. Mössbauer spectra of synthetic Ca-Fe pyroxenoids and lunar pyroxferroite. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 48, 229–232 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383358

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