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Voelckerite

Name:After J.A. Voelcker (1822-1884), English agricultural chemist, who first proposed the existence of an oxyapatite.
Synonym of:Apatite-(CaF)


A hypothetical oxyapatite, in fact a fluorapatite.

References for Voelckerite

Reference List:Rogers, A. F. (1912): American Journal of Science, Series 4, 33, 475-482.

Rogers, A. F. (1914): A New Locality for Voelckerite and the Validity of Voelckerite as a Mineral Species. Mineralogical Magazine 17, 155-162.

Trömel and Möller (1932) Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, Hamburg, Leipzig: 206: 227.

Bredig, Franck and Fuldner (1933) Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie, Halle a.S.: 39: 959.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 879, 883.

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