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Equations of linear regression were derived for the determination of water contained in cordierites. The accuracy of measurements of refraction indices being ±0.001, the accuracy of quantitative evaluation of H2O was ±0.13 wt %.
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Lepezin, G.G., Kuznetsova, I.K., Lavrent'ev, Y.G. et al. Optical methods of determination of the water contents in cordierites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 58, 319–329 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402359
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