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Experimental Study of the Stability and Synthesis of the Tourmaline Supergroup Minerals

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Abstract—Tourmaline is one of the widest spread minerals in nature and one of the most popular gems and a promising piezoelectric material. The growth of large crystals is today a topical task. Tourmaline monocrystals are difficult to synthesize owing to its complex chemical composition, the high chemical stability in hydrothermal solutions, and the low growth rate. The paper reviews recent data on the tourmaline synthesis and the results obtained at the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to L.V. Balitskaya, T.M. Bublikova, V.T. Kadiev, A.A. Mar’in, A.N. Nekrasov, A.A. Viryus, O.L. Samokhvalova, G.V. Bondarenko, D.A. Varlamov, A.F. Red’kin, G.P. Zaraisky, A.R. Kotelnikov (Insitute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences) for help in our study and O.S. Vereshchagin, I.V. Rozhdestvenskaya, and O.V. Frank-Kamenetskata (St. Petersburg University) for cooperation. V.S. Zagorsky and V. E. Kushnarev are thanked for tourmaline samples given for the experiments.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 06-05-64900-а, 09-05-00769-а, 12-05-31030 mol-а, 14-05-31369 mol_а) and Federal Purposeful Program “Scientific and Scientific–Pedagogic Staffs of the Innovation Russia” for 2009–2013 (Event 1.3.1).

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Setkova, T.V., Balitsky, V.S. & Shapovalov, Y.B. Experimental Study of the Stability and Synthesis of the Tourmaline Supergroup Minerals. Geochem. Int. 57, 1082–1094 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702919100094

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