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Modeling the structure, properties, and point defects of forsterite in the ionic-covalent approximation

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Original Russian Text © V.S. Urusov,V.B. Dudnikova, 2011, published in Geokhimiya, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 1097–1105.

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Urusov, V.S., Dudnikova, V.B. Modeling the structure, properties, and point defects of forsterite in the ionic-covalent approximation. Geochem. Int. 49, 1035–1042 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702911100090

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